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modernist aesthetics

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
1985 · Alexander Kluge
An Evening Shoot
An Evening Shoot
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Barbara Hepworth at the Tate
Barbara Hepworth at the Tate
1969 · Bruce Beresford
Bridges-Go-Round 2
Bridges-Go-Round 2
1958 · Shirley Clarke
Hokusai
Hokusai
1953 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
El arte del tabaco
El arte del tabaco
1974 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
L’assoluto naturale (He and She
L’assoluto naturale (He and She
1969 · Mauro Bolognini
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989 · Wim Wenders
Ramkinkar Baij
Ramkinkar Baij
1975 · Ritwik Ghatak
The Draughtsman's Contract
The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 · Peter Greenaway
Vincent
Vincent
1982 · Tim Burton
Transfigured – 12 Lives of Schoenberg
Transfigured – 12 Lives of Schoenberg
2024 · Bertrand Bonello
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Michelangelo Antonioni → Italy

His films deconstruct narrative and emotion through fragmented editing, sparse mise-en-scène, and emphasis on alienation and abstraction in urban spaces.

Jean-Luc Godard → France

He radically dismantles cinematic form itself through self-reflexive techniques, non-linear storytelling, and visual/textual experimentation that prioritizes style over conventional narrative.

Andrei Tarkovsky → Soviet Union

His work embodies modernist austerity through extended duration, meditative pacing, and the reduction of plot to explore consciousness, memory, and the sublime through formal precision.

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