THEME EXPLORATION

labor and industrial work

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Marginal Ones
The Marginal Ones
1978 · Mrinal Sen
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Making of the Spaceship
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
El arte del tabaco
El arte del tabaco
1974 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Foreign Earth
Foreign Earth
1954 · Sergio Corbucci
Kino-Pravda No. 11
Kino-Pravda No. 11
1922 · Dziga Vertov
A Human Condition
A Human Condition
1974 · Louis Malle
Work Party (also Factory Family ) (, 35mm, b&w, sound, 7 minutes
Work Party (also Factory Family ) (, 35mm, b&w, sound, 7 minutes
1942 · Len Lye
Black Fury
Black Fury
1935 · Michael Curtiz
That Old Dream That Moves
That Old Dream That Moves
2001 · Alain Guiraudie
Newsies
Newsies
1992 · Kenny Ortega
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach United Kingdom

His films consistently depict the struggles of working-class individuals against systemic economic pressures and industrial decline.

 Chloé Zhao China/United States

She explores precarious labor and economic hardship through intimate character studies of workers navigating industrial capitalism.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His work examines exploitation, labor relations, and the human costs of industrial society with formal innovation and emotional intensity.