THEME EXPLORATION

time and temporality

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
Michael Spierig Germany

Genre-blending auteurs who explore existential dread through inventive, time-bending narratives.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His films use extended takes and meditative pacing to explore how consciousness experiences duration, memory, and the passage of time as a spiritual dimension.

 Terrence Malick United States

He captures time as flowing, cyclical, and intertwined with memory and mortality through lyrical imagery and non-linear narratives that blur past, present, and eternal moments.