THEME EXPLORATION

isolated communities

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Ghost of Asia
Ghost of Asia
2005 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Eastward
Eastward
1991 · Christian Petzold
Architects of Ayorou
Architects of Ayorou
1970 · Jean Rouch
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Description d’un combat
Description d’un combat
1960 · Chris Marker
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Sidney Lumet
Moonshine
Moonshine
1918 · Buster Keaton
Night of the Big Heat
Night of the Big Heat
1967 · Terence Fisher
The Last Movie
The Last Movie
1971 · Dennis Hopper
Alien 3
Alien 3
1992 · David Fincher
The Life of the Adivasis
The Life of the Adivasis
1955 · Ritwik Ghatak
Barriers of Solitude
Barriers of Solitude
1995 · Patricio Guzmán
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Werner Herzog Germany

His films obsessively document isolated communities and individuals struggling against harsh, remote environments, from Aguirre to Stroszek.

 Chloé Zhao China/USA

She captures marginalized, geographically and socially isolated communities with intimate realism, as seen in Nomadland and The Rider.