THEME EXPLORATION

visual journalism

25 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Persian Series #5
Persian Series #5
1999 · Stan Brakhage
Kino-Week No. 24
Kino-Week No. 24
1918 · Dziga Vertov
Film ist Rhythmus: Rhythmus 21
Film ist Rhythmus: Rhythmus 21
1921 · Hans Richter
Collective
Collective
2019 · Alexander Nanau
The Sound of Claudia Schiffer
The Sound of Claudia Schiffer
2000 · Nicolas Roeg
Art Through Our Eyes
Art Through Our Eyes
2016 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Jim Ritchie Sculptor
Jim Ritchie Sculptor
1971 · David Cronenberg
Red Bells
Red Bells
1982 · Sergey Bondarchuk
Venom
Venom
2018 · Ruben Fleischer
City Life
City Life
1990 · Béla Tarr & Mrinal Sen
No Good Men
No Good Men
2026 · Shahrbanoo Sadat
Signs of Mr. Plum
Signs of Mr. Plum
2026 · Urszula Morga
12 Photographers
12 Photographers
1955 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital
1982 · Lindsay Anderson
Circle of Deceit
Circle of Deceit
1981 · Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930
Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930
2010 · Sergei Eisenstein
Complexe
Complexe
1964 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Final Appointment
Final Appointment
1954 · Terence Fisher
“Histoire d’eaux” (segment) in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
“Histoire d’eaux” (segment) in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002 · Bernardo Bertolucci
Terra em transe
Terra em transe
1967 · Glauber Rocha
The Bible
The Bible
1977 · Marcel Carné
The Colours
The Colours
1976 · Abbas Kiarostami
Crossing the Line
Crossing the Line
2008 · Peter Jackson
A Tricky Painter’s Fate
A Tricky Painter’s Fate
1908 · Georges Méliès
A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow
A Seventy-Four Year-Old Fellow
1964 · Nelson Pereira dos Santos
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Werner Herzog Germany

His documentaries blur the line between objective observation and subjective interpretation, using cinema to interrogate truth and human experience in remote, often underreported places.

 Len Wiseman United States

A pioneer of direct cinema who uses extended observational footage to expose institutional systems and social structures without narration, letting visual evidence speak for itself.