THEME EXPLORATION

palace disruption

15 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942 · Robert Siodmak
The Silences of the Palace
The Silences of the Palace
1994 · Moufida Tlatli
Fellow Citizen
Fellow Citizen
1983 · Abbas Kiarostami
Moro Naba
Moro Naba
1958 · Jean Rouch
This Way, That Way
This Way, That Way
1952 · Kon Ichikawa
California Dreamin'
California Dreamin'
2007 · Cristian Nemescu
Peopling The Palaces
Peopling The Palaces
2007 · Peter Greenaway
1001 Nights of Pleasure
1001 Nights of Pleasure
1972 · Antonio Margheriti
Inside the Forbidden City
Inside the Forbidden City
1965 · Chang Cheh
Prelude 14
Prelude 14
1996 · Stan Brakhage
Remember My Name
Remember My Name
1978 · Alan Rudolph
An Unfinished Film
An Unfinished Film
2024 · Lou Ye
Chinese Odyssey 2002
Chinese Odyssey 2002
2002 · Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai
Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete
Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete
1960 · Silvio Amadio
The Concubine
The Concubine
2012 · Kim Dae-seung
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy

His films like Salò ruthlessly deconstruct power structures and institutional hierarchies through transgressive imagery and narrative disruption.

 Luis Buñuel Spain

His surrealist masterpieces systematically undermine social conventions, aristocratic pretense, and the sanctity of formal institutions through absurdist subversion.

 Gaspar Noé France

His confrontational style violently disrupts viewer comfort and challenges cinematic and social norms through non-linear narratives and provocative imagery.