Unspoken Cinema

Contemplative films at the 2021 MOSTRA :  COMPETITION Michelangelo Frammartino (Italy), Il Buco Michel Franco (Mexico), Sundown OUT OF COMPETITION Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan), The Night (Short 19') And a lot of newcomers, so maybe more...

 CITATIONS I always Liked It Slow (Leonard Cohen) Pour un cinéma contemporain soustractif (Antony Fiant) EVENT WANG Bing & Jaime ROSALES en correspondance (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2014) VIDEO CLIPS Tokyo Reverse (Slow TV) CONTEMPLATIVE FILM Minuscule, la vallée des fourmis perdues   Yearly Tables of Content / Sommaire général annuel  

 FILM REVIEWS Angel's Egg (1985/Oshii) Makala (2017/Emmanuel Gras) VIDEO CLIPS (Ap)prendre le temps ? Il faut savourer l'ennui (France Culture) Desert Films (Gala Hernandez) Béla Tarr & Agnès Hranitzky (videos) INTERVIEWS WANG Bing (France Culture 2017)  LINKS Scholarly Contemplative Cinema NYT's 25 Best Movies of the 21st Century Fireflies The Art(s) of Slow Cinema CITATIONS Contemplative Spectatorship (Zen) Teaching Jeanne Dielman (The Cine-files) OTHER HarryTuttle is back Yearly Tables of Content / Sommaire général annuel

DEBATE Slow Cinema discussion at To Be (Cont'd) 2014 VIDEO CLIPS   Khondji & Parreno on "Zidane, un portrait du XXIe siècle" (Cinémathèque 2017) Takara, La nuit où j'ai nagé (2018/Manivel/Igarashi/Japan) Rethinking Transcendental Style in Film | Paul Schrader Miksang and Contemplative Photography Slow Cinema video essay & Kaili Blues   How Boredom Can Lead To Your Most Brilliant Ideas (Manoush Zomorodi) Late 1890s - A Trip Through Paris, France The Scientific Benefits of Boredom ILLUSTRATIONS CCC Masters : Abbas Kiarostami CCC Masters : Tsai Ming-Liang CCC Masters : Wang Bing CCC Masters : Apichatpong Weerasethakul CCC Masters : Aleksandr Sokurov CCC Masters : Abderrhamane Sissako CCC Masters : Albert Serra CCC Masters : Sergei Loznitsa Durational Cinema Map (from Schrader's) OTHERS Venice Film Festival 2018 Edito de Positif (Ciment) Juillet 2018 Yearly Tables of Content / Sommaire génral annuel

"Missing" (in cinema) for 13 years : Ariane MICHEL who last made a unique film Les hommes  in 2008. She since has made conferences, gallery installations and exhibitions. She is mainly interested by animals, their vision, how we perceive them and how they perceive us. I am awaiting for a new CCC feature film in the same vein as this one. Les hommes (=Humans) is a French documentary by artist Ariane Michel. Upon the occasion of a scientific journey on the East-Greenland arctic seas, onboard, Tara, a schooner (2 masted, aluminium-hulled sailboat) of the oceanographic community, Ariane Michel cautiously films the Nature surrounding them. This hostile environement where humans are mostly absent, is an intemporal world. Few animals and fewer vegetation reign supreme, practically alone, on this icecap. Ariane Michel positions these silhouettes of scientists as intruders on this protected landscape, and takes the point of view of the fauna and flora, in a very quiet and langui

FILM REVIEWS An Elephant Sitting Still (2018/HU Bo/China) Spoiler Territory (An Elephant Sitting Still) Contrechamp interdit (An Elephant Sitting Still) A press review (An Elephant Sitting Still) On a Dirt Road (Contemplative video) Rooftop Under Construction (Contemplative video) Sidewalk Exterior-Night (Contemplative video) Oyster Factory (2015/Kazuhiro SODA/Japan-USA) Inland Sea (2018/Kazuhiro SODA/Japan-USA) INTERVIEW Interview with Observational Filmmakers Kazuhiro SODA & Kiyoko KASHIWAGI VIDEO CLIPS IT MUST BE HEAVEN (Elia SULEIMAN) Press Conference Cannes 2019 Matthew BARNEY's new film : REDOUBT (2019) How to see early silent films (68mm Biograph) Flânerie 2.0 (Chloé Galibert-Laîné) RESOURCE Comparative Duration in WANG Bing's oeuvre Comparative Duration in Lav DIAZ's oeuvre Yearly Table of Content - Sommaire général annuel