Movies and TvShows featuring "post-modernism" theme.
The Mighty Boosh is a surreal musical comedy that follows the adventures of Howard Moon and Vince Noir, two friends who work at a zoo and dream of becoming rock stars.
FLCL is a surreal and psychedelic coming-of-age story that follows a young boy named Naota Nandaba, whose life is turned upside down when a pink-haired alien girl named Haruko Haruhara crashes her Vespa scooter into him, unleashing robots and strange occurrences in his small town.
Three years after the Bellagio heist, Terry Benedict finds the Ocean's eleven crew and demands they return his money with interest. With only two weeks to repay the debt, Danny Ocean and his team plan another heist in Europe to steal a valuable stock certificate. However, a rival thief known as the Night Fox is also after the same object, leading to a challenge to determine the better thief. Agent Isabel Lahiri, a detective with a personal connection to one of the crew members, tries to stop them. Despite setbacks and captures, the team manages to outwit their rivals and successfully complete the heist. In the end, they reunite for a poker night and celebrate their freedom.
Danny Ocean and his team plan a heist to get revenge on casino owner Willy Bank, who double-crossed one of their own. They rig the casino's games and plot to ruin Bank's reputation while also stealing his four diamond necklaces. With the help of their connections and some clever schemes, they succeed in their plan and use the money to help their friend build his own casino.
Nashville is a satirical comedy-drama that explores the lives of multiple characters in the country music scene of Nashville, Tennessee. The film delves into the postmodern aspects of the industry and the false promise of the American dream. It follows the interweaving storylines of different individuals, including a presidential candidate, singers, reporters, and many others. The plot takes tragic turns with the assassination of one of the characters, highlighting the darker side of politics and celebrity-worship. With elements of satire and drama, Nashville showcases the various challenges and struggles faced by its ensemble cast.
A comedic and dramatic portrayal of the rise and fall of Factory Records, a record label that helped shape the music scene in Manchester during the 1970s and 1980s. The film follows Tony Wilson, the founder of Factory Records, and explores the eclectic and often chaotic atmosphere of the music industry in Northern England.
In a post-apocalyptic world, a scientist discovers a way to travel between alternate dimensions. As he explores these different realities, he encounters surreal and avant-garde situations, often with very little dialogue. The film follows his journey through a devastated landscape, with an ambiguous ending that leaves viewers questioning the nature of reality.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory position. Used, on one hand, by post-modernist artists as just one more quotable style amongst many, it is on the other hand still considered an elitist or hermetic language by audiences intimidated by its lack of recognizable subject matter. Yet ultimately, abstraction continues to be a viable creative path for contemporary artists of all generations, many of whom embrace it as the most inclusive and fundamentally resonant of artistic languages. Filmed at the artists' studios, the Dia Center for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum during their exhibition, "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century."
Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can only be conceived by someone Japanese. His architecture mixes Piranesian drama with contemplative spaces in urban complexes, residences and chapels. This film presents the formative years of his impressive career before he embarked on projects in Europe and the United States.
The Land Camera Collective presents a (nearly) shot-by-shot remake of the Owen Land 1977 classic experimental film 'On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist be Wholed?'
A quasi-sequel to Michel Houellebecq's novel The Possibility of an Island, Masbedo's short presents a post-apocalyptic landscape overseen by a distant mother nature or perhaps mother of nature portrayed by French icon Juliette Binoche.
An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore masculinity, alienation, and identity in a post-industrial society.
When a screenwriter stays at a cabin by the lake, he becomes obsessed with a missing girl and discovers a sinister secret involving a serial killer.
Since the 1960s, other disciplines, cultures, and artists previously excluded from modernism's privileged canons have become absorbed into an ever expanding field of activity and influence. Younger artists are a new breed of cultural scavengers, anything or anyone is fair game for appropriation or reinterpretation. Fascinated by notions of space, time and the human body, artists such as David Hammons, Laurie Simmons and Richard Wentworth have carved their own path through conceptual art.
A documentary film that delves into the post-modernist movement known as deconstructivism in architecture. The film explores the philosophy behind deconstructivism and showcases the works of influential architects in this field.
A self-styled "urban guerrilla" in Greenwich Village is sent on various assignments across the country by a mysterious "commander."
Strange occurrences in a desolate ranch cause two brothers to fight for their sanity.
A young Black man, raised in a White neighborhood, ridiculed for not being "Black enough" decides to go to the hood to hang out with his gangster cousin and discover what it really means to be "Black." He eventually faces the harsh reality of gang violence, drugs and police confrontation.
Phantom (2013) is a surrealistic drama film set in Tokyo, Japan. The movie explores themes of unhappiness, poverty, and identity through a nonlinear narrative. It delves into the inner thoughts and reality of the characters amidst the neon lights and working conditions of the city. The story follows a nameless character and their experiences with love, loneliness, literature, and consumerism. The film incorporates avant-garde elements such as unsynchronized sound, jump cuts, and dream-like sequences.