THEME EXPLORATION

photography and representation

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Shadows from Light
Shadows from Light
1983 · Stephen Dwoskin
Yi Yi
Yi Yi
2000 · Edward Yang
Obituary for a Murderer
Obituary for a Murderer
1991 · Michael Haneke
Palermo Shooting
Palermo Shooting
2008 · Wim Wenders
Night Colonies
Night Colonies
2021 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Photograph
The Photograph
2008 · Hitoshi Yuho
The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas
The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas
2026 · Eugene Yi
12 Photographers
12 Photographers
1955 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
Birth of Light
Birth of Light
1997 · Abbas Kiarostami
From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
La caméra de Claire
La caméra de Claire
2017 · Hong Sang-soo
L’assoluto naturale (He and She
L’assoluto naturale (He and She
1969 · Mauro Bolognini
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Michelangelo Antonioni Italy

His films obsessively examine how photographs and images mediate reality, most explicitly in 'Blow-Up' where a photograph becomes unreliable evidence of truth.

 Jean-Luc Godard France

He fundamentally questions cinema's relationship to photography and representation through radical formal experiments that expose film as a constructed medium rather than transparent reality.

 Chris Marker France

His essay films like 'Sans Soleil' treat photography as a philosophical tool to explore memory, time, and how still images construct meaning and narrative.