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THEME EXPLORATION

natural forms

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Scarborough Bluffs
Scarborough Bluffs
1972 · David Cronenberg
Godzilla
Godzilla
2014 · Gareth Edwards
Salt and Fire
Salt and Fire
2016 · Werner Herzog
San Andreas
San Andreas
2015 · Brad Peyton
Give You A Candy
Give You A Candy
2024 · Liu Jiangjiang
Swapped
Swapped
2026 · Nathan Greno
Amazonas, Amazonas
Amazonas, Amazonas
1966 · Glauber Rocha
Birth of Light
Birth of Light
1997 · Abbas Kiarostami
Key Largo *
Key Largo *
1948 · John Huston
“Histoire d’eaux” (segment) in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
“Histoire d’eaux” (segment) in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002 · Bernardo Bertolucci
The Disaster in Oaxaca
The Disaster in Oaxaca
1931 · Sergei Eisenstein
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Terrence Malick → USA

His films are meditative explorations of nature's beauty, human consciousness, and the interconnectedness of all living things through poetic cinematography and philosophical questioning.

Werner Herzog → Germany

He documents extreme natural landscapes and human relationships with wilderness, revealing the sublime and often tragic beauty of untamed natural forms.

Agnès Varda → France

Her films celebrate organic forms—plants, flowers, and decay—as metaphors for time, memory, and the cycles of nature woven into human experience.

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