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THEME EXPLORATION

time acceleration

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
They Caught the Ferry
They Caught the Ferry
1948 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
Time Piece
Time Piece
1965 · Jim Henson
Past Lives
Past Lives
2023 · Celine Song
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
1985 · Robert Zemeckis
Dust in the Wind
Dust in the Wind
1986 · Hou Hsiao-hsien
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1995 · Michael Haneke
Your Name.
Your Name.
2016 · Makoto Shinkai
Run Lola Run
Run Lola Run
1998 · Tom Tykwer
Syndromes and a Century
Syndromes and a Century
2006 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
36 Fillette
36 Fillette
1988 · Catherine Breillat
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
1992 · Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Terrence Malick → USA

His films compress vast temporal spans into poetic moments, collapsing geological time and human existence into meditative sequences that challenge linear perception.

Christopher Nolan → USA/UK

He structurally manipulates time itself through non-linear narratives and explores temporal acceleration as a central plot mechanism in films like 'Tenet' and 'Dunkirk'.

Andrei Tarkovsky → Russia

His extended takes and philosophical approach reveal how cinema can slow subjective experience while accelerating existential and spiritual time, inverting traditional notions of temporal speed.

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