THEME EXPLORATION

resistance to modernity

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Leopard
The Leopard
1963 · Luchino Visconti
Passage to Marseille
Passage to Marseille
1944 · Michael Curtiz
The Gleaners and I
The Gleaners and I
2000 · Agnès Varda
Alphaville
Alphaville
1965 · Jean-Luc Godard
Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains
1966 · Jiří Menzel
Pyramid of the Sun God
Pyramid of the Sun God
1965 · Robert Siodmak
Ashes and Diamonds
Ashes and Diamonds
1958 · Andrzej Wajda
Busch singt – Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Busch singt – Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
1982 · Konrad Wolf
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022 · James Cameron
Blood of the Condor
Blood of the Condor
1969 · Jorge Sanjinés
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
1975 · Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention
2002 · Elia Suleiman
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Terrence Malick USA

His films explore humanity's struggle against mechanization and industrial progress through poetic, nature-centered narratives that reject conventional storytelling.

 Béla Tarr Hungary

His bleak, slow-cinema works depict communities resisting and succumbing to modernization, using industrial decay and temporal dissolution as central visual metaphors.

 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand

His films preserve oral traditions, spiritual beliefs, and pre-modern temporality against globalization, using fragmented narratives that resist Western narrative conventions.