Unspoken Cinema

  The Don't Tell Show's: Top 5 Slow Cinema Feature Films on YouTube (YouTube) 3' (THE DON'T TELL SHOW) 11 Oct 2024 "Full Playlist here: Slow Cinema on Youtube "

A Sociological Analysis on Tsai Ming Liang's "I Don't Want To Sleep Alone"  (YouTube) 6'13" (zeogonzo) 3 march 2024  "A short analysis on the themes and concepts introduced in Tsai Ming Liang's only film done in Malaysia. Made as an assignment for a sociology class in my film school."

  So You Want To Get Into...Tsai Ming-liang (YouTube) 16'17" (Dion Wyn) 1 March 2021

  MASTERCLASS Bruno Dumont (YouTube) 54'16" (Quinzaine des cinéastes) 21 mai 2026 Lire aussi: Dumont, Année Zéro (Critikat, Josué Morel, 20 mai 2026)

  Tsai Ming-liang and The Slow, Quiet Devastation of Loneliness (YouTube) 8'35" (Joel Talks About Movies) 17 Sep 2022 "Films mentioned in this video: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone Stray Dogs Rebels of a Neon God The Wayward Cloud The River"

  Doors and Windows of Abbas Kiarostami (YouTube) 4'19" (In the mood for film) 22 apr 2026   "A quiet study of doors and windows as they appear across the films of Abbas Kiarostami. These openings are not treated as objects, but as positions—places where seeing becomes uncertain, and where distance begins to shape meaning. Characters pause near thresholds, look through glass, move alongside frames that never fully reveal what lies beyond them. The video follows this repetition: doorways that hesitate, windows that filter, spaces that remain slightly out of reach. What emerges is not a narrative, but a way of looking—one that accepts incompleteness, distance, and the quiet presence of time passing. Nothing here resolves. Everything remains at the edge."

  Cannes 2026 - La Libertad Doble de Lisandro Alonso (YouTube) 14'49" (Critikat) 17 mai 2026 Avec : Josué Morel et Robin Vaz Voir aussi: La Libertad retrouvée (Critikat)

  Seeing Patterns in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang (YouTube) 1'55" (Fandor) 24 Apr 2018 "Along with Hsiao-hsien Hou and Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated directors of Second New Wave Taiwanese Cinema. He has made ten internationally acclaimed feature films —including Stray Dogs, now streaming on Fandor—that, along with telling unvarnished and complex stories of contemporary life in Taiwan and Malaysia, make use of a number of recurring themes and motifs: phone booths, sexuality, mirrors, and musical numbers, to name a few. This video dives into the aesthetic and thematic patterns of a daring yet subtle minimalist auteur, and the ways he uses his many trademarks."

  Rebonds - Lisandro Alonso, la Libertad retrouvée (YouTube) 31'01" (Critikat) 8 mai 2026 "C'est l'un des projets les plus singuliers présentés cette année au Festival de Cannes : vingt-cinq après son premier film, "La Libertad", Lisandro Alonso livre une suite aux déambulations de Misael, un bûcheron dont on suivait les actions prosaïques dans la forêt. En attendant donc "La Libertad Doble", il nous fallait réarpenter la nature luxuriante de la Pampa et revenir à ce film hybride, qui cultive à partir de presque rien un vertige. De quoi "La Libertad" est-elle le nom ? Le "slow cinéma" existe-t-il ? Alonso serait-il aujourd'hui, avec Weerasethakul, le dernier des modernes ? Toutes ces questions sont à l'honneur de ce nouvel épisode de Rebonds." Avec : Josué Morel et Robin Vaz. Voir aussi : La Libertad Doble (Critikat)

"Le Sacre du Printemps vous invite à une expérience sensorielle inédite. Une immersion Slow TV : 7 jour/7, 24h/24 pour vivre au rythme de la nature qui s'éveille au cœur de la Normandie. Pendant trois semaines, en direct et en continu, laissez-vous transporter par ce spectacle. Des prairies verdoyantes aux rivages sauvages, observez la flore et la faune. Chaque instant est une invitation à la contemplation : le chant des oiseaux, le bourgeonnement des arbres, les premiers pas des jeunes animaux. Notre streaming live est une fenêtre ouverte sur le renouveau printanier, offrant une évasion paisible et une connexion profonde avec la beauté sauvage de la Normandie. Découvrez les mille détails de cette renaissance, au rythme lent et captivant de la nature." "À partir du lundi 4 mai à 6h30, le public pourra accéder en direct au dispositif exceptionnel de Slow TV « Le Sacre du Printemps », une immersion inédite au cœur du printemps normand.  Pensé comme une expérience conte...

The Turin Horse (2011) Three Sisters (2012) Leviathan (2012) Our Daily Bread (2005) I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006) Le Quattro Volte (2010) An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) The Red Turtle (2016) Bovines (2011) Aquarela (2018) Perfect Days (2023) La libertad (2001) Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002) Les Hommes (2006) Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Honour of the Knights (2006) Oxhide II (2009) Death in the Land of Encantos (2007) At the First Breath of Wind (2002) Colossal Youth (2006) Blissfully Yours (2002) Resurrection (2025) Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003) Ranked by preference, here are the 25 greatest films of Contemplative Cinema from the last quarter of century (2001-2025) Find this list on my Letterboxd Have you seen them all yet? Please leave your Top10 or Top25 in the comments below if you so wish!

  8th Street Film | Abdul Rahman | Missed Movies (YouTube) 1h00'29" (Missed Movies New Wave) 12 Apr 2026 Tamil, English subtitles. "Late at night, a stranger, an old man, and a waiter cross paths. Through quiet moments and subtle exchanges, their encounter reveals loneliness, memory, and a quiet search for meaning." Written, Directed & Edited by Abdul Rahman Loosely based on the short story by E. Hemingway : " A Clean Well Lighted Place " (1933) [ PDF ]

  All About Contemplation Cinema (YouTube) 6'12" (Missed Movies New Wave) 3 May 2026 "Contemplation Cinema is a curated screening initiative exploring slow, transcendental, reflective, and poetic films. It creates an intimate space for audiences to experience cinema beyond narrative focusing on stillness, time, and observation." Contemplation Cinema page  (Instagram)

  New addition to the Library page at Unspoken Cinema: "This article examines silence and stillness as central aesthetic strategies in contemporary slow cinema, exploring their capacity to evoke contemplation, resist narrative acceleration, and offer alternative temporal experiences in an era of media saturation. Drawing on Paul Schrader’s theory of transcendental style, with its progression from everyday realism to decisive stasis (2018), Ira Jaffe’s conceptualization of slow movies as an existential counter to the spectacle-driven “cinema of action” through curtailed motion and spatiotemporal vacancy (2014), and Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge’s plural, global framing of slow cinema’s challenge to instrumentalized time (2016), the study employs a transcultural comparative approach. Through the interpretive lens of Emersonian Transcendentalism, American filmmakers Terrence Malick, Paul Schrader, and Kelly Reichardt deploy silence as a site of individual spiritual trial, et...