Unspoken Cinema

Philosophie : L'attente (ARTE France; 14 Oct 2012) 26' [ YouTube ] Les philosophes Nicolas Grimaldi et Raphaël Enthoven prennent leur mal en patience. "Veuillez patienter..." A-t-on seulement le temps d'attendre ? Et quelle différence entre n'avoir plus rien à attendre et disparaître ? Avec le philosophe Nicolas Grimaldi, Raphaël Enthoven explore nos propensions à l'attente, dans l'espoir d'être plus tard ce qu'on voudrait être ici et maintenant. Filmographie suggérée du Cinéma Contemplatif Contemporain : Le moindre geste (1971/Deligny/Manenti/France) Jeanne Dielman (1976/Akerman/Belgique) D'est (1993/Akerman/Belgique) A Humble Life (1997/Sokurov/Japan/Russia) Mother and Son (1997/Sokurov/Russia) La blessure (2004/Klotz/Belgique) Hamaca Paraguaya (2006/Encina/Paraguay) Fantasma (2006/Alonso/Argentina) Colossal Youth (2006/Costa/Portugal) El Cants dels Ocells (2008/Serra/Spain) Uncle Boonmee who Can Recall His P...

Leviathan (2012) Q&A at NYFF (30 Sept 2012) 37'16" Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel Q : "What does the film say about the commercialization of fishing?" Lucien Castaing-Taylor : "Nothing. We are not trying to say anything. But one thing we're trying to do is to make films that don't say anything. Films, like everything humans make, are always about something in some way. But to imagine that they are about something that could be expressed in words, outside of the fabric of the film itself, is kind of ludicrous, because then you wouldn't make the film, you would write it. But fiction films in particular, narrative films, are not reducible to a point, or to making a statement about the world. And non-fiction, documentary, suffers by contrast, with this burden that spectators put on it, that filmmakers put on it, that programmers put on it... which is always elaborating an argument about the world, it is reducible to making a stat...

The Children Watch Ron Fricke's SAMSARA (Kurt Halfyard; 9 Oct 2012; Vimeo) 6'47" Willem (age 9) and Miranda (age 7) watched the 'tour of the world' documentary SAMSARA. Afterwards, they talk about what they liked and didn't like about this unusual type of film. Related : Children Ciné-Club (Beeban Kidron)  

Left Field Cinema was first released in November 2007, written and presented by Mike Dawson. The show has two main purposes; the first is to examine cinema in relative terms, tackling main stream cinema from alternative perspectives, applying varying theories to popular films and hopefully discussing them with a fresh point of view. The second purpose is to unearth more obscure films from world cinema and the independent scene, films that perhaps you've never heard of but are worthy of your attention. Left Field Cinema Podcast  (Mike Dawson) Selected episodes relating to CCC films : World Cinema Masterpiece: Werckmeister Harmonies  [ MP3 ] 26'52" An extended examination of Bela Tarr's modern masterpiece about the boundaries between civility and barbarism. Also featuring a look back at the first eight feature films of Tarr's career. Contemporary Obscurity: Satantango  [ MP3 ] (missing MP3, read the written review instead) Bela Tarr's seven and a hal...

Qui est John Cage ?  [ MP3 ] 1h23' Rencontre avec Jean-Yves Bosseur, Joëlle Léandre, Saladin Matthieu, Bastian-Dupleix Isabelle (BPI; Centre Georges Pompidou; Paris; 24 Sept 2012) [ PDF ] Célébrer la mémoire de John Cage, qui aurait eu cent ans en 2012, dans une bibliothèque ? Nul doute que le musicien, performeur, poète et penseur aurait trouvé l'idée cocasse ; lui dont la pratique, comme celle de Dada, Duchamp ou Satie, défie le monde de l'art et ses institutions. La Bpi relève ce défi. Dans ses espaces, parmi ses collections de livres et de disques, Bernard Fort interprètera la Conférence sur rien (Lecture on nothing), méditation poético-philosophique précisément réglée, que John Cage considérait comme une composition à part entière. Puis dans la Petite Salle du Centre Pompidou, le compositeur Jean-Yves Bosseur s'entretiendra avec Matthieu Saladin sur la personnalité, l'influence et l'actualité de Cage. Cette rencontre sera ponctuée par les interventio...