Unspoken Cinema

  Naked Island (1960/SHINDO/Japan) (Designed by Benoit Rouilly) See also at Unspoken Cinema: Naked Island (Kitsnik) More Like This (2) Naked Island

 Watch More Like This Film: Gerry (2002/Van Sant) keywords = Desert + Walking + Mutism (*) Non Contemplative Film More like it: Freedom (2000/Bartas) More like it: Quixotic (2006/Serra) More lonely: Le moindre geste (1971/Deligny) More slowed down: Walker series (2012-2024/Tsai) More islandish: The Red Turtle (2016/Dudok De Wit) More desert: Birdsongs (2008/Serra) More forest: Los Muertos (2003/Alonso) More snow: Essential Killing (2010/Skolimowski) More epic: Satantango (1994/Tarr) More Kabuki: Dolls (2002/Kitano) *More Amerindian: Dead Man (1995/Jarmusch) *More verbalisation: Stalker (1979/Tarkovsky) *More vagabond: Sans toit ni loi (1985/Varda) More engines: The Brown Bunny (2002/Gallo) Find more Contemplative films at Unspoken Cinema: CCC Recommendations

"[..] Our emphasis on the affective mediation of the film’s atmospheres contributes to the slow cinema debate, where much theorising explains the genre’s characteristic slowness in narrative-aesthetic terms. By including recent discourse on affective atmospheres, we aim to provide theoretical tools that can be used to understand and analyse the stylistic features of slow films as aesthetic, atmospheric properties that afford viewers’ meaningful engagement with the film-world in ways differently than narrative comprehension and/or character engagement. In other words, the novel framework of film atmosphere helps advance the understanding of certain distinct aesthetic pleasures this type of film offers its audience; the notion of atmosphere captures well the power the aesthetics of slowness holds. [..]" Slow Cinematic Atmosphere: Developing an Enactivist-Phenomenological Theory for Contemplative Spectatorship ; Jakob Boer & Ludo de Roo; 17 Feb 2025; Quarterly Review of Film...

  Video essay on Perfect Days V2 (YouTube) 8'06" (Sophia by Nico) 7 Feb 2025

  from the film's own Instagram: @gzilbalodis Read also at Unspoken Cinema: Average Shot Length Average Shot Length in CCC

  Belá Tarr about the philosophy of filmmaking (YouTube) 9'14" (European Film Club) 20 June 2024 "The legendary Hungarian director Béla Tarr sat down with Braiens, our Latvian member of the European Film Club, and shares how his political anger made him do films when he was only 16 years old. On the occasion of the 36th European Film Awards on 9 December 2023, Béla Tarr was presented with the Honorary Award of the Academy President and Board. With this award the European Film Academy payed special tribute to an outstanding director and a personality with a strong political voice, who is not only deeply respected by his colleagues but also celebrated by audiences world-wide. It was a great honour for the European Film Club to meet him!"

Abiding Nowhere  (2024/TSAI/Taiwan) DOC Caught By The Tides  (2024/JIA/China) Dahomey  (2024/DIOP/FR/Senegal/Benin) DOC Direct Action  (2024/CAILLEAU/RUSSELL/France/Germany) DOC Flow  (2024/ZILBALODIS/Latvia) In Praise of Slowness  (2024/GARDAF/UK/Italy) Short DOC March to May  (2024/REPKA/Slovakia) Pepe  (2024/Nelson Carlo de LOS SANTOS ARIAS/Dominican Republic) Phantosmia  (2024/DIAZ/The Philippines) Qing Chun: Gui / Youth: Homecoming  (2024/WANG bing/China) DOC Qing Chun: Ku / Youth: Hard Times  (2024/WANG bing/China) DOC Rivulet of Universe  (2024/WATCHARAPANIT/Thailand) Salome  (2024/MANGANSAKAN/The Philippines) Slow  (2024/LANG/FR) DOC Tardes de Soledad  (2024/SERRA/France/Portugal/Spain) DOC The Cats of Gokogu Shrine  (2024/SODA/Japan) DOC Viet and Nam  (2024/TRUONG/Vietnam) See the CCC Recommendations Page on Unspoken Cinema for more

Direct Action Direct Action (2024/CAILLEAU/RUSSELL/France/Germany) DOC Dahomey (2024/DIOP/FR/Senegal/Benin) DOC Evil Does Not Exist (2023/HAMAGUCHI/Japan) Man in Black (2023/WANG Bing/France) C’est pas moi (2024/CARAX/France) Youth (Spring) (2023/WANG Bing/China) In Our Day (2023/HONG Sangsoo/S.Korea) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024/RASSOULOF/Iran) Flow (2024/ZILBALODIS/Latvia) Poor Things (2023/LANTHIMOS/USA) Le deuxième act (2024/DUPIEUX/France) Kinds of Kindness (2024/LANTHIMOS/USA) Caught By The Tides (2024/JIA/China) All We Imagine As Light (2024/KAPADIA/India) Daaaaaalí (2023/DUPIEUX/France) The Zone of Interest (2023/GLAZER/UK) Memory (2023/FRANCO/USA) The Room Nextdoor (2024/ALMODOVAR/USA) I'm Still Here (2024/SALLES/Brazil) The Monk And The Gun (2023/DORJI/Bhutan) *In purple: Contemplative Cinema

  PERFECT DAYS (2024) a Cinematic Ode to the Ordinary | in-depth film review (YouTube) 8'06" (Up in the Air ft. Zürich) March 1st 2024

  The Straight Story: The Little Things In Life | The Essay Library Video Jam 2025 (YouTube) 4'14" (Obscure Film) 20 Jan 2025 "An exercise in considering the little things (during a high speed video essay making jam)"

  SLOW FILM FESTIVAL 2025

  HOW TO RECOMMEND SLOW CINEMA - Video Essay (YouTube) 13'41" (Archie Marshall) 16 Jan 2025

  Documentaries where the journey is the destination (YouTube) 7'20" (James DeLisio) 20 jan 2025 "In film, we often like to say that it's more about the journey than the destination. But is that always true? Video essay by James DeLisio & Max Teeth, created as part of the Essay Library's 2025 48 Hour Video Jam. We created two videos about the sensory and durational journeys taken in several documentary films." Documentaries on the sensory journey (YouTube) 6'19" (Max Teeth) 20 jan 2025 "I made this video essay in one weekend with my friend James Delisio for the Essay Library's Essay Jam. we made two parallel essays exploring the somatosensory and durational experience of several documentaries (and a few narrative films)."