THEME EXPLORATION

industrial decay

24 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint
Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint
1992 · Michael Moore
Amores Perros
Amores Perros
2000 · Alejandro González Iñárritu
Batman Begins
Batman Begins
2005 · Christopher Nolan
Time of the Gypsies
Time of the Gypsies
1988 · Emir Kusturica
Trainspotting
Trainspotting
1996 · Danny Boyle
Zama
Zama
2017 · Lucrecia Martel
Cabaret Balkan
Cabaret Balkan
1998 · Goran Paskaljević
Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis
2012 · David Cronenberg
Luminous People
Luminous People
2007 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Akira
Akira
1988 · Katsuhiro Otomo
24 City
24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke
Aquarius
Aquarius
2016 · Kleber Mendonça Filho
Ajantrik
Ajantrik
1958 · Ritwik Ghatak
Angel
Angel
2007 · François Ozon
Bariera
Bariera
1966 · Jerzy Skolimowski
Brise-glace
Brise-glace
1990 · Jean Rouch
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Cheers in the Palm!
Cheers in the Palm!
1969 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
El arte del tabaco
El arte del tabaco
1974 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Fast Hands
Fast Hands
1976 · Alan Clarke
Il caso Mattei
Il caso Mattei
1972 · Francesco Rosi
12:08 East of Bucharest
12:08 East of Bucharest
2006 · Corneliu Porumboiu
A Report on the Party and the Guests
A Report on the Party and the Guests
1966 · Søren Peter Langkjær Bojsen
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Chloé Zhao China/USA

Her films document the economic collapse of American industrial communities and the resilience of those left behind.

 Ken Loach United Kingdom

He chronicles the social devastation wrought by deindustrialization in post-industrial Britain with unflinching realism.

 Michael Haneke Austria

His austere aesthetic captures the psychological alienation and dehumanization within decaying urban and industrial landscapes.