THEME EXPLORATION

primitive aesthetics

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
An Evening Shoot
An Evening Shoot
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Bridges-Go-Round 2
Bridges-Go-Round 2
1958 · Shirley Clarke
El arte del tabaco
El arte del tabaco
1974 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Hokusai
Hokusai
1953 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
L’assoluto naturale (He and She
L’assoluto naturale (He and She
1969 · Mauro Bolognini
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989 · Wim Wenders
The Barbarian, Ingomar
The Barbarian, Ingomar
1908 · D.W. Griffith
The Draughtsman's Contract
The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 · Peter Greenaway
Vincent
Vincent
1982 · Tim Burton
Face Anthea
Face Anthea
1990 · Stephen Dwoskin
Matchless (John Papadopoulos, ) production assistant
Matchless (John Papadopoulos, ) production assistant
1974 · Phillip Noyce
Mr. Robinson
Mr. Robinson
1976 · Sergio Corbucci
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Werner Herzog Germany

His films obsessively document humanity's primal encounters with nature and the limits of civilization, from Aguirre to Fitzcarraldo.

 Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy

He celebrated the raw vitality of marginalized bodies and pre-industrial cultures while critiquing modernity's corruption of primitive authenticity.

 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand

His cinema privileges sensory, non-narrative experience and spiritual communion with landscape over Western rational aesthetics.