BLOGATHON 2007
Contemplative Cinema Blogathon (January 2007)
CONTRIBUTIONS 2007
Anticipatory preparations (from 2006) :
CONTRIBUTIONS 2007
- Is it Boring Because Its Art? Or is it Art Because Its Boring? (The Cinesthete at Reel Friction)
- Time in Akerman's Je, tu, il ...elle (Johanna at The Lone Revue)
- Contemplative Cinema: Notes on "Slacker" (Damian at Windmills of my Mind)
- What Price Fetish? (Bob at Forward to Yesterday)
- Tokyo Story (Ryland Walker Knight at Vinyl is Heavy)
- towards an exploration of contemplative cinema (cineboy at PilgrimAkimbo)
- Inland Empire (Jürgen Fauth at jürgen fauth’s muckworld)
- Contemplative Cinema and Quixotic (Doug Cummings at FilmJourney)
- Akerman's Là-bas 1 & 2 (HarryTuttle at Screenville)
- A Child's History Of Long Takes (David Lowery at Drifting)
- Contemplating Contemplation: Manoel de Oliveira’s Je rentre à la maison (Flickhead at Flickhead.net)
- More fun with contemplative cinema (cineboy at PilgrimAkimbo)
- When sound is reborn in silence (Marina at Almayer)
- Harun Farocki's Inextinguishable Fire (Zach Campbell at Elusive Lucidity)
- Andy Warhol (Girish at Girish)
- Rivette 1 (weepingsam at The Listening Ear)
- Gus Van Sant on Bela Tarr (HarryTuttle at Screenville)
- Lakes and Skies (Brian Darr at Hell On Frisco Bay)
- Defining Contemplative Cinema (Bela Tarr) (weepingsam at The Listening Ear)
- Contemplative Cinema at the Drive-In: Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop (Tom Sutpen at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger . . . )
- Contemplative Cinema Blog-A-Thon - Play Time (1967) as Spiritual Treatise (Brendon at My Five Year Plan)
- Bela Tarr's Sound Images: Cinema of Proximity (Adrian Chan at reviews and analysis of indie films...)
- Average Shot Length (HarryTuttle at Unspoken Cinema)
- Contemplating Babel in many tongues and voices (Adrian Chan at Reviews and analysis of significant Films...)
- Minimum Profile (HarryTuttle at Unspoken Cinema)
- The Suspended Step of the Stork (acquarello at Strictly Film School)
- The Red And The White (Ian Johnston at Not Coming To A Theatre Near You)
- Bela Tarr Notes (weepingsam at The Listening Ear)
- Lateral sculpture: Béla Tarr's Sátántangó (Ryland Walker Knight at The House Next Door)
- A Turning of the Earth, in Real Time (Bob at Forward to Yesterday)
- Purpose and style (Marina at Unspoken Cinema)
- The Falling Rain in Bela Tarr and Andrei Tarkovsky (Adrian Chan at Reviews and analysis of significant Films...)
- Tentative genealogy (HarryTuttle at Unspoken Cinema)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan interview (Climates) (HarryTuttle at Screenville)
- Cinema Sublime: considering contemplative cinema's relationship to the infinite (cineboy at PilgrimAkimbo)
- Gilles Deleuze and Contemplative Cinema (Adrian Chan at Reviews and analysis of significant Films...)
- Old Joy (Paul Martin at Melbourne Film Blog)
- Contemplative Cinema: The Long Road to Taipei (2) (Zach Campbell at Elusive Lucidity)
- Justifying the frame (Marina at Unspoken Cinema)
- Ozu's Any-Space-Whatever, read through Gilles Deleuze (Adrian Chan at Unspoken Cinema)
- What is Contemplating Cinema? (Adrian Chan at Reviews and analysis of significant Films...)
- Contemplative Cinema Blog-a-Thon: Theo Angelopoulos' The Weeping Meadow (Matt Zoller Seitz at The House Next Door)
- Tiexi Qu - Chinese Indie Doc (1) (Ouyang Feng at Chungking Express)
- Contemplative Cinema Conclusions (Colossal Youth) (weepingsam at The Listening Ear)
- Sex, fruit and starshine: The proxemics of The Wayward Cloud (Steve Carlson at The Ongoing Cinematic Education of...)
- Deus ex Sanguina: Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day (Jeremiah Kipp at The House Next Door)
- Todo Todo Teros (John Torres, 2006) (Noel Vera at Critic After Dark)
Live correspondance (in French) with Le Forum des Cahiers du Cinéma !
ROUNDTABLES 2007
- Contemplative or not contemplative? (updates feed)
- Contemplation and Genres (updates feed)
- Aesthetic Economy (updates feed)
- Transcendental or CC? (updates feed)
- Bad Contemplative Films (updates feed)
Thanks everyone!
Anticipatory preparations (from 2006) :
- Boring Art Films (Darren Hughes at Long Pauses)
- Of boredom and interestingness (Jan at Jahsonic)
- What is contemplative cinema? (Marina at Almayer)
- Satantango Marathon (David Bordwell at davidbordwell.net)
- Satantango (Darren Hughes at Long Pauses)
- Music & Experience as narrative force... (Johanna at The Lone Revue)
- La Nature au Cinéma (Guillaume Massart at FilmDeCulte) French
- Carlos Reygadas on Battle in Heaven (Robert Davis at Errata)
- “Art-Cinema” Narration part 1, 2 & 3 (Cineboy at PilgrimAkimbo)
- Thoughts From an (Experimental?) Documentary Film (Johanna at Unspoken Cinema)
- Contemplative Acting? (Marina at Unspoken Cinema)
- [Non-]Narrativity (Marina at Unspoken Cinema)
Comments
- Santantango by Darren Hughes at Long Pauses
- Johanna at The Lone Revue writes a triptych for Unspoken Cinema : Music & Experience as narrative force...
1)Anticipation of a Video Collective's Project
2)Audience as Interaction in Non-Narrative Film
3)Conceptual Conflicts in Non-Narrative: Music & Expectation
Adding a French text on 3 recent films celebrating landscape and natural pace (Lady Chatterley, Hamaca Paraguaya, Straub-Huillet's Ces Rencontres avec eux) : La Nature au Cinéma (Guillaume Massart at FilmDeCulte) in French
Welcome Noel Vera, and of course you can contribute whatever you choose. Is it the famous filipino's "Satantango"?
You could just leave a link to the existing piece if you like too. It's all fine.
I hope to see you in the comments discussions.
The NewBlogger is still acting up... (apparently only with Team-blogs) the techies are working on fixing the problems, I hope everything will work again on Monday. We can still edit the existing posts (to update contribution links) and comment. But I can't add new posts. Anybody else can here?
(see new image in sidebar)
Is it Boring Because Its Art? Or is it Art Because Its Boring? (The Cinesthete at Reel Friction)
re: NEWBLOGGER bug with team-blogs
Until we find a solution to cross-post the contribution here (nobody can publish new posts at the moment), you can engage the discussion with your readers at your blogs. We might need to open a new blog for the roundtable discussions. Unless anyone knows another host for team-blogs?
Check out also the forum at Cahiers du Cinema to follow the contemplative Cinema discussion in French with Cahiers readers.
http://damianarlyn.blogspot.com/2007/01/contemplative-cinema-notes-on-slacker.html
Anyhow, my contribution is here. Good luck and thanks for doing this.
I'm working on my post(s) myself, so I'll be with you soon.
The bug is still not fixed today, so i'll try to move to another blog where we can post. I'll let you know.
By the way: thanks for using that poster -- it looks good on Unspoken Cinema! In case anyone needs to know, the face belongs to Leonor Silveira.
Thanks for the beautiful poster Flickhead, I like it. Is it a painting? or a movie poster? Looks familiar but I can't place it...
Don't worry about the deadline, post whenever you're ready. If the posts spread over the week, browsing the discussions will be easier I guess.
Everyone, if you are working on a post and are not listed in the contributors list (on the right) please drop a notification here, just so we know how many contributions to expect. We'll send you an invitation to join here with an email (I think the Google account is needed though?)
Thanks Jurgen for your link, from what I heard there is a lot of contemplation in Lynch's latest.
And I am envious of your film viewing options!
Adding new contributions :
Doug Cummings at FilmJourney with Contemplative Cinema and Quixotic
And my first contribution in 2 parts : Chantal Akerman's Là-bas and Over There : Documenting contemplation
Thank you all for your patience, and for starting the discussions already.
Of course, the text deals with independent Chinese cinema.
sorry for my lateness.
Thanks for the contributions David Lowery, Flickhead, and cineboy.
(Since we can subscribe to the Comment Feeds of this thread it's better to post every update to the list here, so we can see when there is new content on a RSS aggregator) ;)
Looking forward to your post Ouyang Feng. There are already lots of underexposed recommendations for asian cinema at your blog.
- Thoughts From an (Experimental?) Documentary Film (Johanna at Unspoken Cinema)
- Contemplative Acting? (Marina at Unspoken Cinema)
- [Non-]Narrativity (Marina at Unspoken Cinema)
We can discuss these too. Until we can post again here. Soon I hope (the support team found the problem now).
Here's the beginning of some notes on Eric Khoo's Be with me. I've got to focus on a few more points and will add the rest of the text to that post. Sorry again. And that roundtable looks quite tempting! :)
Bob (Forward to Yesterday), I tried to leave a comment but apparently your blog doesn't accept unless we have a Word Press account. And I couldn't open an account either. Help!
Thanks again for the invite, Harry.
Adding : Girish's contribution on Andy Warhol
I hope to delve into all the writing here soon. It's a great thematic collection of material.
I notice that several of the links to past blog-a-thons (very handy!) are broken.
Oh I don't know what happened to these links they are all truncated... Will fix that. Thanks for the heads up.
Adding :
Defining Contemplative Cinema (Bela Tarr) (weepingsam at The Listening Ear)
I wrote up a post on Tati as well as larger issues of Contemplative Cinema at My Five Year Plan.
Tom Sutpen also added his contribution : Contemplative Cinema at the Drive-In: Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger . . .
- Average Shot Length (HarryTuttle at Unspoken Cinema)
- Contemplating Babel in many tongues and voices (Adrian Chan at Reviews and analysis of Indie Films, Foreign Films, Documentaries, and some Popular Movies)
- Minimum Profile (HarryTuttle at Unspoken Cinema)
- Angelopoulos' The Suspended Step of the Stork, 1991 (acquarello at Strictly Film School)
It's a debate open to the public.
And another forum discussing our discussions at Criterionforum.org.
Hope you like!
Adding a bunch lately :
- Gilles Deleuze and Contemplative Cinema (Adrian Chan at Reviews and analysis of significant Films...)
- Old Joy (Paul Martin at Melbourne Film Blog)
- Contemplative Cinema: The Long Road to Taipei (2) (Zach Campbell at Elusive Lucidity)
- Justifying the frame (Marina at Unspoken Cinema)
- Ozu's Any-Space-Whatever, read through Gilles Deleuze (Adrian Chan at Unspoken Cinema)
a few days left to contribute to the blogathon...
But this blog can stay alive after the blogathon ends.
Sex, fruit and starshine: The proxemics of The Wayward Cloud (Steve Carlson at The Ongoing Cinematic Education of...)
Deus ex Sanguina: Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day (Jeremiah Kipp at The House Next Door)
Todo Todo Teros (John Torres, 2006) (Noel Vera at Critic After Dark)
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Brad
Welcome aboard.
The blogathon event was limited in time, but everyone can continue to post content on this blog. I sent you an invitation to join, if you want to start new posts here. Or you can just link to the articles on your blog that you think are relevant to our discussion here.