THEME EXPLORATION

abandoned institutions

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Syndromes and a Century
Syndromes and a Century
2006 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Kara
Kara
2026 · Vignesh Raja
Beaubourg, Centre d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou
Beaubourg, Centre d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou
1977 · Roberto Rossellini
Good Mothers
Good Mothers
1942 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
Muggsy’s First Sweetheart
Muggsy’s First Sweetheart
1910 · D.W. Griffith
Per le antiche scale (Vertiges/Down the Ancient Stair
Per le antiche scale (Vertiges/Down the Ancient Stair
1975 · Mauro Bolognini
The Age of Desire
The Age of Desire
1923 · Frank Borzage
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
1986 · Jean Rouch
Kino-Pravda No. 9
Kino-Pravda No. 9
1922 · Dziga Vertov
God's Crooked Lines
God's Crooked Lines
2022 · Oriol Paulo
Session 9
Session 9
2001 · Brad Anderson
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
2011 · Declan O'Brien
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrey Zvyagintsev Russia

His films obsessively document decay and abandonment in post-Soviet spaces, particularly institutional collapse and human alienation within deteriorating environments.

 Chloé Zhao China/United States

Her work intimately explores abandoned industrial landscapes and the people left behind by institutional systems, creating poetic narratives from desolation.

 Paolo Sorrentino Italy

He frequently uses crumbling palaces, empty estates, and defunct institutional spaces as metaphors for fading power structures and spiritual emptiness.