THEME EXPLORATION

collective mourning

30 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
I'm Working Through Everything... Word of Honor!
I'm Working Through Everything... Word of Honor!
1988 · Christian Petzold
The Human Surge 3
The Human Surge 3
2024 · Eduardo Williams
Waltz with Bashir
Waltz with Bashir
2008 · Ari Folman
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul & David Lowery & Jafar Panahi
If All the Guys in the World
If All the Guys in the World
1956 · Christian-Jaque
Marshal Tito's Spirit
Marshal Tito's Spirit
2000 · Vinko Brešan
24 City
24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke
Di Cavalcanti
Di Cavalcanti
1977 · Glauber Rocha
For Life, Against the War
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Shirley Clarke
Funérailles au Ghana
Funérailles au Ghana
1960 · Jean Rouch
General Assembly
General Assembly
1960 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris
1972 · Bernardo Bertolucci
The Princess Gohime
The Princess Gohime
1992 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
12:08 East of Bucharest
12:08 East of Bucharest
2006 · Corneliu Porumboiu
8 ½ Women
8 ½ Women
1999 · Peter Greenaway
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
2023 · Cyril Aris
Sieranevada
Sieranevada
2016 · Cristi Puiu
The People from the Train
The People from the Train
1961 · Kazimierz Kutz
Chile: Obstinate Memory
Chile: Obstinate Memory
1997 · Patricio Guzmán
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
1924 · Dziga Vertov
Elliott’s Suicide
Elliott’s Suicide
2007 · Kenneth Anger
The Big Parade
The Big Parade
1986 · Zhang Yimou
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla Minus One
2023 · Takashi Yamazaki
Work Party (also Factory Family ) (, 35mm, b&w, sound, 7 minutes
Work Party (also Factory Family ) (, 35mm, b&w, sound, 7 minutes
1942 · Len Lye
An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls
1954 · Guy Hamilton
Circus Maximus
Circus Maximus
2023 · Gaspar Noé & Nicolas Winding Refn
Half Baked: Totally High
Half Baked: Totally High
2024 · Michael Tiddes
The Inheritors
The Inheritors
1998 · Stefan Ruzowitzky
Sequence
Sequence
2013 · Carles Torrens
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His meditative, spiritual films explore profound loss and collective memory through time and consciousness, particularly in works like 'Stalker' and 'Mirror'.

 Chloé Zhao China/USA

Her intimate yet expansive cinema captures communal grief and economic displacement, examining how individuals process shared trauma in 'The Rider' and 'Nomadland'.

 Béla Tarr Hungary

His bleak, hypnotic style presents entire societies drowning in despair and collective hopelessness, transforming mourning into a visual and philosophical experience.