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Poétique de la rêverie au cinéma (Adrien-Gabriel Bouché)

Dernière ajout à la page bibliothèque sur Unspoken Cinema : "Ainsi, le spectateur passe de l’expérience poétique à l’expérience esthétique sous l’impulsion du langage filmique. L’articulation des images, des scènes, des séquences sort en effet le spectateur de sa simple attitude contemplative pour engendrer un mouvement de pensée et le placer une nouvelle fois sur un seuil, à mi-chemin entre le vu et l’imaginé, entre sa passivité physique et son activité psychique, entre l’articulation des images du film et l’élaboration de ses propres associations mentales. Contrairement à la définition inaugurale qui en a été donné, la rêverie, au cinéma, ne peut être considérée comme un état de conscience passif pas plus qu’elle n’est, nous l’avons vu à travers le cinéma de Rithy Panh notamment, agréable. Si, dans son acception générale, la rêverie peut être vécue comme un temps de retrait visant à mettre le flux de l’existence à distance, au cinéma le spectateur est sans cesse confronté aux i...

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Underworld and Death in Subtractive Cinema (Ferragut) español

 Latest addition to the Library page at Unspoken Cinema: "(English abstract) The so-called «Subtractive Cinema» (Antony Fiant 2014) encompasses a trend in Contemporary Cinema that reduces story, dialogue, and the number of shots to a minimum. Among its most recognizable directors are Chantal Akerman, Béla Tarr, and Wang Bing. In this style, shots appear with more autonomy than in Classical Cinema and are connected more by mental associations than spatial continuity. Fiant observes that this cinematic mode inherits what Deleuze (1987a) called the «Time-Image,» so we will use his notions of relative and absolute offscreen images to understand how the shots are organized and what they leave out. And although this trend comes after the Time-Image, subtractive cinema revives the aesthetics of Early Cinema, which we call the «Matter-Image.» The examples we will use are the films of Pedro Costa, particularly Cavalo Dinheiro (2014) and Vitalina Varela (2019), and those of Apichatpong Wee...

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Schrader's Durational Map v. CCC

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  In 2018, Paul Schrader published a map for Durational Cinema at large ( see his original diagram here ), and in particular for what he theorized in 1972 (Transcendental Style in Film), i.e. spiritual cinema around Ozu, Bresson and Dreyer. I produced a counter map for Durational Cinema here , also in 2018. Today, this illustration represents the Venn diagram of TSF (Transcendental Style in Film) and Durational Cinema (as seen by Schrader) crossed with the filmmakers promoted on this blog (CCC = Contemporary Contemplative Cinema) We notice that only 4 auteurs (Akerman, Kiarostami, Sokurov and Gus "Death Trilogy" Van Sant) are both considered TSF and CCC. The rest is out of bound (beyond the Tarkovsky ring, see his map) in grey against purple background, or ignored completely (in white against purple) See also the Slow Cinema v. CCC Venn diagram here

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Autonomy And Time (Alessandro D'Aloia)

Latest thesis added to the Library page of Unspoken Cinema: "How does time affect the audience of the moving image? This thesis reimagines a question first posed by film philosopher Gilles Deleuze in Cinema 2: The Time-Image, a question Deleuze attributes to Martin Heidegger and Antonin Artaud: what is it about the moving image that forces us to think? [..] By exploring how time, rather than affect, shapes our interpretation of a given film, and how that interpretation is, in turn, shaped by the affective residue of past encounters, this thesis identifies a recursive relationship that forms the interpretive horizon through which cinematic meaning gradually emerges as part of an ongoing experience." "First Recap 1. The perspective of an individual, as reflected in Ciment’s characterisation of slowness, frames what I call a relative aestheticism, wherein the experience of time is shaped by our very own subjective viewpoint. 2. Slowness is a complex theoretical subject tha...

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Slow Films and Life (Liminal Movie Project)

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  What Slow Films Teach Us About Life (YouTube) 4'17" (Liminal Movie Project) 26 Oct 2025 "In a world of speed and distraction, slow cinema dares to take its time, to let life unfurl at its natural rhythm. From Tarkovsky’s long takes to Chantal Akerman’s stasis, from Béla Tarr’s endless rain to Wong Kar-wai’s yearning pauses — these directors are asking us not to see time pass but to feel it unfold. This essay examines how slow cinema transforms silence into emotion, stasis into animation, boredom into revelation. This outburst isn’t about story — it’s about presence. About the bits between the bits that give life its cinematic quality. If you’ve ever been told that “nothing happens” in a movie, this video is for you."

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Perdre son temps (France Culture)

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  France Culture : (Les tyrannies de l'urgence ; La philosophie à l'épreuve du temps) Prendre son temps, est-ce le perdre ? Podcast radio 58' (6 novembre 2025) "Et si la sieste était autre chose qu'une pause au service de la performance ? Et si la flânerie, attitude travaillée par de nombreux écrivains, était une vraie résistance contre les tyrannies modernes de l'urgence ? Avec :  Sébastien Spitzer, ecrivain, essayiste Catherine Nesci, professeure de littérature comparée et d'études françaises à l'université de Californie à Santa Barbara Jean Tain, agrégé et docteur en philosophie de l'École Normale Supérieure de Paris Il paraît que faire la sieste nous fait le plus grand bien, même si certains disent se réveiller dans un état peu agréable. Et puis, certains n’y arrivent tout simplement pas. Mais il est d’autres figures de résistance aux injonctions de vitesse que notre société nous envoie. D’autres contre-pieds à la tyrannie de l’urgence." ...

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Lifetime report on the blog Unspoken Cinema (GPT5)

  GPT 5.2: I’ll analyze the content of the Unspoken Cinema blog (2006–2025), categorizing posts by theme, author, content type, and date. I’ll also summarize key takeaways, include relevant quotes or excerpts, and highlight any available data on reader engagement. Research completed in 16m· 26 sources· 38 recherches Unspoken Cinema (2006–2025) – Overview Unspoken Cinema is a film blog (hosted on Blogspot) founded and run by Benoit “HarryTuttle” Rouilly, dedicated to “Contemporary Contemplative Cinema.” As of 2025 it calls itself the “oldest blog on Contemplative Cinema” (ads-free, bilingual English/Français) unspokencinema.blogspot.com . Rouilly authors most posts, with occasional guest contributions (e.g. Adrian Chan in 2007 unspokencinema.blogspot.com , or early collaborator Marina in 2006 unspokencinema.blogspot.com ). The site serves as both film criticism and theory , emphasizing slow, minimalist, meditative cinema. “Contemplative Cinema is a relatively recent aesthetic mo...