THEME EXPLORATION

artificiality and spectacle

11 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Triumph of the Will
Triumph of the Will
1935 · Leni Riefenstahl
The Greatest Showman
The Greatest Showman
2017 · Michael Gracey
King Kong vs. Godzilla
King Kong vs. Godzilla
1962 · Ishirō Honda
Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon
1975 · Sidney Lumet
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
2016 · Ang Lee
O Dreamland
O Dreamland
1953 · Lindsay Anderson
Peepshow
Peepshow
1956 · Ken Russell
A Trip Down Memory Lane
A Trip Down Memory Lane
1966 · Arthur Lipsett
La Femme volante
La Femme volante
1902 · Georges Méliès
Mohouhan
Mohouhan
2002 · Yoshimitsu Morita
Réfutation de tous les jugements, tant élogieux qu’hostiles, qui ont été jusqu’ici portés sur le film “La Société du Spectacle”
Réfutation de tous les jugements, tant élogieux qu’hostiles, qui ont été jusqu’ici portés sur le film “La Société du Spectacle”
1975 · Guy Debord
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Fincher United States

His films obsessively deconstruct media manipulation, performance, and the constructed nature of identity in the digital age.

 Pedro Almodóvar Spain

He celebrates artificiality as liberation, using melodrama, vibrant aesthetics, and theatrical excess to explore authentic emotion beneath performative surfaces.

 Joachim Trier Denmark

He interrogates spectacle and voyeurism by forcing audiences to confront the ethics of watching, blurring cinema's artificiality with visceral reality.