La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928)
La Chute de la Maison Usher [The Fall of the House of Usher] is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s story and the best-known film…
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Night and Fog (1955)
Widely considered one of the greatest documentaries ever made, Night and Fog [Nuit et brouillard] is a 1955 French short film about the Holocaust, combining…
Nosferatu (1922)
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens [A Symphony of Horror] (1922) is a German Expressionist film that remains one of the most popular…
Karnad, Girish (1938–2019)
The origin of modernism, though highly contested, is generally assumed to be in the West. Such terms as ‘alternative modernities’ have come forth in the…
Ionesco, Eugène (1909–1994)
Eugène Ionesco is one of the foundational playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. He is known for his post-war drama, which deals with the…
El Khoury, Tania (1982–)
Tania El Khoury is a Lebanese-British live artist whose work has been performed at festivals and in public spaces around the world. El Khoury’s practice…
Wilder, Thornton (1897–1975)
Thornton Wilder, the accomplished American author of groundbreaking plays and novels, was a modern-day poeta doctus, a ‘learned writer’, appealing to popular audiences while also…
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis refers to a set of analytic practices, theories, and concepts focused on the inner workings of the human unconscious, its manifestations, and ailments. A…
Copland, Aaron (1900–1990)
Aaron Copland, recognised as a founding figure in American music, was one of the first to embrace the more accessible genres of jazz and folk…
Iranian New Wave
The Iranian New Wave began when a group of young Iranian directors—following developments in the Iranian cultural arena with origins in the political and social…
Visconti, Luchino (1906–76)
Italian left-wing activist and partisan Luchino Visconti was a film, theatre, and opera director, as well as a scriptwriter. Inspired by the poetics of French…
Jennings, Humphrey (1907–50)
Humphrey Jennings (1907–50) is best remembered as one of Britain's most dynamic documentary filmmakers, but he was also at the centre of the key cultural…
Ghatak, Ritwik Kumar (1925–76)
Ritwik Ghatak was an Indian Bengali filmmaker who, along with filmmakers like Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, is known as one of the proponents of…
Chabrol, Claude (1930–2010)
Claude Chabrol was one of the core directors of the French New Wave, which is known for its self-reflexive cinematic modernism. He had also contributed…
Reiniger, Lotte (1899–1981)
Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger (1899–1981), born in Berlin, the first woman animator, was the foremost practitioner of silhouette animation (paper cut-outs lit from beneath and manipulated…
Ghosts Before Breakfast [Vormittagsspuk] (1928)
Ghosts Before Breakfast (German title: Vormittagsspuk) is a short, experimental, avant-garde animated film from 1928 by Hans Richter. The film, coming almost four years after…
Spring in a Small Town (1948)
Spring in a Small Town [Xiǎochéng zhī chūn], directed by Fei Mu (1906–51), is one of the classics from the second golden age of Chinese…
Osaka Elegy (1936)
Osaka Elegy is an early sound film by Japanese film director Mizoguchi Kenji. It features elements of Mizoguchi's trademark style, such as lateral tracking shots,…
Pull My Daisy (1959)
Pull My Daisy (1959) is a short film directed by Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank, understood as an early example of New American Cinema and…
Mizoguchi, Kenji (1898–1956)
Japanese film director Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) was one of Japan's three greatest golden age directors alongside Yasujirō Ozu and Akira Kurosawa. Mizoguchi developed a distinctive…
Vernacular Modernism
The concept of vernacular modernism was introduced by Miriam Hansen in her influential essay, 'The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism'…
Lubitsch, Ernst (1892–1947)
Ernst Lubitsch was a film director, producer, and actor who was a key figure in Weimar cinema and the Golden Hollywood era. He is best…
Umberto D. (1952)
Umberto D. is a film by Vittorio De Sica, which is often said to mark the end of the Italian neorealist film movement. Its modernism…