THEME EXPLORATION

industrial progress

24 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
Making of the Spaceship
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Croods
The Croods
2013 · Chris Sanders & Kirk DeMicco
24 City
24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke
Bridges-Go-Round 2
Bridges-Go-Round 2
1958 · Shirley Clarke
Brise-glace
Brise-glace
1990 · Jean Rouch
Cheers in the Palm!
Cheers in the Palm!
1969 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
El arte del tabaco
El arte del tabaco
1974 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Fountainhead
Fountainhead
1956 · Masaki Kobayashi
Il caso Mattei
Il caso Mattei
1972 · Francesco Rosi
Le Train en marche
Le Train en marche
1971 · Chris Marker
Moolaadé
Moolaadé
2004 · Ousmane Sembène
¡Qué Viva México!
¡Qué Viva México!
1979 · Sergei Eisenstein
TG Psychic Rally in Heaven
TG Psychic Rally in Heaven
1981 · Derek Jarman
The Golden Thread
The Golden Thread
1965 · Ritwik Ghatak
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
1967 · Peter Greenaway
A Trip Down Memory Lane
A Trip Down Memory Lane
1966 · Arthur Lipsett
Kino-Pravda No. 10
Kino-Pravda No. 10
1922 · Dziga Vertov
Little Town
Little Town
1962 · Emilio “Indio” Fernández
Tent of Miracles
Tent of Miracles
1977 · Nelson Pereira dos Santos
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
Rammstein: Paris
Rammstein: Paris
2017 · Jonas Åkerlund
The Mangler
The Mangler
1995 · Tobe Hooper
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Walter Lang Germany

His masterpiece Metropolis (1927) presents a visionary critique of industrial dystopia and class division in a mechanized future city.

 Charlie Chaplin United Kingdom

Modern Times (1936) brilliantly satirizes industrial dehumanization through the iconic image of the worker consumed by factory machinery.