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THEME EXPLORATION

modernist aesthetics

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

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
Andrei Tarkovsky → Soviet Union

His films deconstruct narrative temporality and visual representation through long takes and philosophical abstraction, embodying core modernist concerns with form over content.

Jean-Luc Godard → France

He systematically challenged cinematic conventions through fragmentation, self-reflexivity, and experimental editing, treating the film medium itself as a modernist text to be interrogated.

Michelangelo Antonioni → Italy

His work explores alienation and the inadequacy of representation through minimalist compositions and ambiguous narratives, epitomizing modernist skepticism toward traditional storytelling.

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