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transportation infrastructure

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Kino-Pravda No. 8
Kino-Pravda No. 8
1922 · Dziga Vertov
Wonder Ring
Wonder Ring
1955 · Stan Brakhage
Still Life
Still Life
2006 · Jia Zhangke
Broads
Broads
1989 · Christian Petzold
Concrete Grandma
Concrete Grandma
1986 · Mai Zetterling
Fiat Croma
Fiat Croma
2005 · Paolo Sorrentino
King-Size Woman
King-Size Woman
1965 · Bruce Beresford
Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche
Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche
1929 · Marcel Carné
Storstrøm Bridge
Storstrøm Bridge
1950 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
1967 · Peter Greenaway
L’Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque
L’Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque
1993 · Eric Rohmer
Le Tunnel sous la manche, ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais
Le Tunnel sous la manche, ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais
1907 · Georges Méliès
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Béla Tarr → Hungary

His sprawling, hypnotic films like *Satantango* and *Tueur* use desolate landscapes and the absence of functional infrastructure to explore human isolation and societal decay.

Agnès Varda → France

Her documentaries and narrative films, particularly *Vagabond* and *The Gleaners and I*, examine roads, highways, and journeys as metaphors for freedom, social belonging, and human connection.

Tsai Ming-liang → Taiwan

His films like *What Time Is It There?* and *Stray Dogs* present urban infrastructure—subways, streets, and architecture—as alienating environments that frame modern emotional disconnection.

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