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THEME EXPLORATION

sand drawing

4 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
La Belle noiseuse
La Belle noiseuse
1991 · Jacques Rivette
Daouda Sorko
Daouda Sorko
1967 · Jean Rouch
Le Chevalier mystère
Le Chevalier mystère
1899 · Georges Méliès
Prelude 17
Prelude 17
1996 · Stan Brakhage
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky → Soviet Union/Russia

His meditative cinematography captures sand and desert environments as profound spiritual and philosophical spaces, most notably in 'Mirror' and 'Stalker.'

Werner Herzog → Germany

He repeatedly films in harsh desert and sandy environments, using these landscapes as characters themselves to explore human obsession and the sublime, as in 'Fata Morgana' and 'Aguirre.'

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