Unspoken Cinema

The Art of Stillness - Pico Iyer (TED talk) 15'41" * * *   The Urgency of Slowing Down - interview of Pico Iyer at OnBeing (YouTube audio) 51'56"

7 years without a new film by Lisandro ALONSO, since Jauja (released in 2014)... which was one of the rare period films in Contemplative Cinema. And there was another hiatus between the previous film : Liverpool (2008) and Jauja . They were released 6 years apart.  We got an inkling about his new film : Eureka , at the 2020 Locarno Film Festival with this official statement from the selection comittee :  Lisandro Alonso was directing outside his native Argentina for the first time, with an ensemble of cast and crew from countries ranging from Finland to Spain, when Covid-19 hit the shooting of his western in Portugal. Exploring the connections between the different cultures inhabiting a land through time is at the heart of Eureka . Here is the page of the film Eureka on the festival website, in case you want to read the synopsis before the film comes out..

A video essay :   Slow Cinema -Tsai, Lynch, etc. (Robin D) 23'33" - 19 april 2021 Also Watch on Unspoken Cinema : What is Slow Cinema? (Francesco Quario) Slow Cinema the Art of Boredom (Elizabeth Pillar) 2020 Slow Cinema and Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light (Jordan Scholig) Slow Cinema essay and Kaili Blues What is slow cinema?  (24 Frames) Temporality in Slow Cinema (Cameron Niblock) 2021

  Voici la Généalogie du Cinéma Contemporain Contemplatif. 14 ans plus tard, je remets à jour l' Updated Genealogy Chart  de novembre 2007. Il y a quelques changements, mais remarquablement, le principe reste le même. J'ai conservé la structure en strates verticales (de A=Réalité à H=Installation) qui permet de distinguer les sous-catégories du mode contemplatif. Et chaque strate a sa généalogie verticale propre, avec Lumière pour socle commun. J'ai fait le tri dans les précurseurs, et dans les contemplatifs aussi. On voit bien que le mode narratif minimaliste (discursif) est isolé du reste, de part son usage du langage, son besoin de message dialogué.  * * * Aux travers des multiples facettes du cinéma contemporain se dessine une veine de films distinctive, fascinante, radicale et minimaliste… les films contemplatifs. Ni une école, ni un mouvement, ni un genre, ni un style… cette famille de cinéma est un mode narratif minimaliste, une esthétique transnationale convergente

A video essay :    A Closer Look : Moving Images Criticism - Slow Cinema (Making Waves - Cameron Niblock) 10 aug 2021 - 8'03" Temporality in Slow Cinema : A Critical Analysis on the Long Take & its application to 'Prologue' by Béla Tarr & 'No No Sleep' by Tsai Ming-Liang Produced as part of the BA (Hons) Film and Television degree at Solent University Also Watch on Unspoken Cinema : What is Slow Cinema? (Francesco Quario) Slow Cinema the Art of Boredom (Elizabeth Pillar) 2020 Slow Cinema and Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light (Jordan Scholig) Slow Cinema essay and Kaili Blues What is slow cinema?  (24 Frames)

 Sharon Lockhart is an underexposed Contemplative filmmaker, probably because she's a gallery artist who does video installations for museums... (like Tacita Dean maybe). Yet her dedication to the Contemplative aesthetics is undeniable, thus she's one of the 23 exemplary masters to define CCC. She's most famous for  Lunch Break  (2008) or  Double Tide  (2009). Her latest documentary, called Rudzienko , dates back from 2017.  Last year she participated in a joint exhibition with James Benning : Over Time (at the Milwaukee Art Museum, USA) * * * James Benning & Sharon Lockhart in conversation about their joint exhibition : Over Time  (YouTube) 1h04' Videos :  Artist Conversation : Sharon Lockhart (Los Angeles County Museum of Arts) 6'04" Press Conference Sharon Lockhart - Noa Eshkol  (2012) 39'14"  Interviews : James Benning interviews Sharon Lockhart about Lunch Break (2010) PDF Lucien Castaing-Taylor interviews Sharon Lockhart (2015) Official w