Unspoken Cinema

Wojciech Sławnikowski (he/him), a student of Film Studies, Polish Philology, and Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland The Travelling Players (1975, Angelopoulos) Jeanne Dielman (1975, Akerman) The Sacrifice (1986, Tarkovsky) Sátántangó (1994, Tarr) Vive l'amour (1994, Tsai) Ulysses' Gaze (1995, Angelopoulos) Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Tarr) The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr) A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016, Diaz) Days (2020, Tsai) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Benoit Rouilly (alias HarryTuttle) cinéphile, critic, motion designer Twitter @rouillybenoit3c Sátántangó (1994/TARR Béla Tarr/Hungary) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975/Chantal AKERMAN/Belgium) Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003/WANG Bing/China) The Turin Horse (2011/TARR Béla/Hungary) Le Moindre Geste (1971/DELIGNY/MANENTI/FR) I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006/TSAI/Taiwan) Los Muertos (2004/ALONSO/Argentina) Leviathan (2012/CASTAING-TAYLOR, PARAVEL/FR-USA-UK) DOC Blissfully Yours (2002/WEERASETHAKUL/Thailand) An Elephant Sitting Still (2018/HU Bo/China) My 2022 Top20 CCC Canon My CCC Top10 Canon (2012)   * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Niels Satantango - Tarr The house - Bartas Heremias Book one - Diaz Jeanne Dielman - Akerman Goodbye Dragon Inn - Tsai The turin horse - Tarr Melancholia - Diaz Evolution of a philipino family - Diaz Century of birthing- Diaz Death in the land of encantos - Diaz * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Jakob Boer is a cotutelle PhD-student in film studies and philosophy at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and Macquarie University Sydney (Australia). LinkedIn | Academia | ResearchGate At the First Breath of Wind (Franco Piavoli, 2002) Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020) Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002) Double Tide (Sharon Lockhart, 2009) Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos, 1998) Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983) Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007) The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, 2011) Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994) I wanted my top-10, on the one hand, to be canonical. So, it needed to reflect the formal and stylistic diversity; the varied stories, themes and emotional responses; and the extended geographic and cultural history of cinematic contemplation. That being said, on the other hand, it would also be inherently personal. Obviously, these two demands exis...

 Emanuel Stalker (1979) Tale of Tales (1979) Chungking Express (1994) Dreams (1990) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Kosmos (2009) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) The Red Turtle (2016) The Return (2003) Lights in the Dusk (2006)   * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Cáit Murphy Specialities: Claire Denis, auteurism, digital media, and social media Social media: @caitmurphyfilm on Instagram and Twitter Link: https://caitmurphyfilm.wixsite.com/portfolio My list may not be totally reflective of contemplative cinema, as some do not conform to the general tendencies. Le samouraï is possibly an outlier in its emphasis on genre and pulsating score. However, its contemplativeness and silence revise the noir/crime film in ways that sometimes feel closer to Bresson than to Columbia studio noirs. The depiction of non-human labour, repetition, and silence in the documentary Cow is my reasoning to include it. This is a new stylistic departure for Andrea Arnold, while maintaining her interest in complex female subjects and contemporary working life in Britain. My general feeling about contemplative cinema is a sense of not just duration (durée) but deep spatial awareness and ambiguity, a kind of palimpsest (like Jarman’s Blue ) in which spacio-temporality ma...

Michael Guarneri writer L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) Fare un film è per me vivere. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971) One for the road. Damnation (Béla Tarr, 1988) The storm rages outside, the fog thickens inside our brains and lungs. Sitting on a fart in the darkest corner of the bar, we think about all the things that went wrong and can't be changed... It is too late for everything now, it is all over... but maybe there is still a chance... Maybe, just maybe, after this drink, after this cigarette, something will happen and everything will change... Hope is a horrible thing indeed, and yet we can't help clinging on to it as we sink - slowly but surely - into nothingness. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing, 2003) "In the past, in China, there was a very explicit and severe system at work. What I mean is that the exercise of power by the government over the individuals was very direct and evident: the Communist Party ruled people through di...

Julian Ross Curator, researcher, writer; Assistant Professor, Leiden University. @rossjulian News from Home (Chantal Akerman) Foyer (Ismaïl Bahri) Mouth to Mouth (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha) La Région Centrale (Michael Snow) One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (James Benning) By the time it gets dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong) The Train Stop (Sergei Loznitsa) Brouillard #14 (Alexandre Larose) Fatima's Letter (Alia Syed) Another Day of a Housewife (Mako Idemitsu) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

André Dias Film teacher ESTC, Portugal https://estc.ipl.pt/cursos-cinema @aindanao http://facebook.com/aindanaocomecamos… I take ‘contemplative cinema’ to be a pronounced post-mid 80s tendency and a Southeast Asian one at that, mainly characterized by the feeling of an extended duration or, more precisely, an empty extension; so, on this point I consciously neglect possible European precursors to this cinema. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY / GU LING JIE SHAO NIAN SHA REN SHI JIAN Edward Yang 1991 NAN GUO ZAI JIAN, NAN GUO / GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE Hou Hsiao Hsien 1996 NO QUARTO DA VANDA / IN VANDA’S ROOM Pedro Costa 2000 TIE XI QU / WEST OF THE TRACKS Wang Bing 2002 MOARTEA DOMNULUI LAZARESCU / THE DEATH OF MR. LĂZĂRESCU Cristi Puiu 2005 HEI YAN QUAN / I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE Tsai Ming-liang 2006 SANG SATTAWAT / SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2006 LIVERPOOL Lisandro Alonso 2008 HAPPÎ AWÂ / HAPPY HOUR Ryusuke Hamaguchi 2015 DA XIANG XI DI ER ZUO / AN ELEPHANT SITTING ST...

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein Philosopher www.botzbornstein.org Werckmeister Harmonies [Werckmeister harmóniák]. Dir. Béla Tarr. 2000. Satantango [Sátántangó]. Dir. Béla Tarr. 1994. An Elephant Sitting Still [大象席地而坐]. Dir Hu Bo. 2018. The Hole [洞]. Dir. Tsai Ming-liang. 1998. Liverpool. Dir Lisandro Alonso. 4L, 2008. Ossos. Dir. Pedro Costa. Madragoa Fims, 1997. Stalker. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Mosfilm, 1970. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu [Moartea domnului Lazarescu]. Dir. Cristi Puiu. Mandragora, 2005. The Mirror. [ Зеркало]. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Katinka Farago, 1980. Nostaghia. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Sovin Film-Rai2, 1983. * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Giacomo 1) Au Hasard Balthazar 2) Stalker 3) Satantango 4) Jeanne Dielman 5) Landscape in the mist 6) Maborosi 7) Taste of Cherry 8) Goodbye Dragon Inn 9) Eureka 10) Still Life (a bit undecided between the iranian and chinese one, they're both quite contemplative, but I chose the Iranian one) Decided to have a single film for every director and also was a bit undecided about what could be considered truly contemplative. Have a nice day * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Justin Remes Associate Professor of Film Studies, Iowa State University Specialty: Experimental Film Author of Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (Columbia UP, 2015) and Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing (Columbia UP, 2020) Justin Remes on academia.edu H2O (Steiner, 1929) Screen Test: Ann Buchanan (Warhol, 1964) Wavelength (Snow, 1967) Lemon (Frampton, 1969) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975) One Way Boogie Woogie (Benning, 1977) Sátántangó (Tarr, 1994) Deanimated (Arnold, 2002) Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai, 2003) Five: Dedicated to Ozu (Kiarostami, 2003) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Janos Kis Avant-garde filmmaker, photographer www.janos-kis.com SÁTÁNTANGÓ by Béla Tarr LATE SPRING by Yasujirô Ozu THE SEVENTH SEAL by Ingmar Bergman TASTE OF CHERRY by Abbas Kiarostami JEANNE DIELMAN by Chantal Akerman NOSTALGHIA by Andrei Tarkovsky WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? by Tsai Ming-liang STILL LIFE by Jia Zhangke ETERNITY AND A DAY by Theodoros Angelopoulos FANTASMA by Lisandro Alonso + ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL by Rainer Werner Fassbinder CYCLO by Trần Anh Hùng DUST IN THE WIND by Hou Hsiao-hsien DISTANT by Nuri Bilge Ceylan ++ At Sea by Peter Hutton Meshes of the afternoon by Maya Deren ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE by James Benning * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey will be published until the final canon.

Sean Gilman TheChineseCinema.com @theendofcinema Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948) Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986) Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000) Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001) Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009) Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, 2014) These movies, all of which mean a lot to me personally, seem like a good representation of some different ways of being contemplative cinema—how it started, and where it’s going. * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

DUTCH Contemplatieve Cinema Initiatie Contemplatieve cinema is een vernieuwende minimalistische filmvorm die is begonnen in de jaren zestig en zeventig van de vorige eeuw en die sinds de jaren 2000 sterk is gegroeid. Het heeft een ingetogen vertelwijze die wordt gekenmerkt door traagheid (het tempo van het alledaagse leven), verstilling (met ingehouden dialoog), afwezigheid van een klassieke dramatische opbouw (geen begin of einde), en spaarzaam gebruik van muziek (vaak met direct geluid). Waar moet je starten als beginner? Ik raad u de volgende, relatief gemakkelijk te vinden films van harte aan: ze zijn boeiend en niet te lang of te sober. Hier zijn 5 titels in volgorde van toegankelijkheid: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003) van KIM Ki-duk (overleden eind 2020), een Zen-verhaal dat de vijf levensfasen van een man uitbeeldt die weerklinken in de vijf seizoenen van het jaar. It Must Be Heaven (2019) van Elia SULEIMAN, een absurde, bitterzoete komedie over de omzwer...

Peter Labuza Film Historian and Union Researcher (IATSE Local 600) @labuzamovies Playtime (Jacques Tati, France, 1967) Jeannie Dielman (Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1975) Life...and Nothing More (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1992) The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao Hsien, Taiwan, 1993) Beau Travail (Claire Denis, France, 1999) Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan, 2003) Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2003) Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2009) Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, USA, 2010) Leones (Jazmin Lopez, Argentina, 2013) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Srikanth Srinivasan is a film critic from Bangalore, India. Twitter: @J_A_F_B Tabiat-e Bijan (Still Life, Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974) Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) Pokkuveyil (Twilight, Govindan Aravindan, 1982) El Sol Del Membrillo (The Quince Tree Sun, Victor Erice, 1992) Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994) Bu San (Good Bye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003) Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010) La Mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV, Albert Serra, 2016) 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017) Matter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2022) With deep respect to the films of Artavazd Peleshian, Sharunas Bartas, Lav Diaz, Darezhan Omirbaev, Sharon Lockhart, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Alexander Sokurov, Pedro Costa, Lisandro Alonso, Amir Naderi, Liu Jiayin, Sergei Loznitsa, James Benning, Jia Zhang-Ke, Semih Kaplanoglu, Arby Ovanessian, Mani Kaul, Kumar Shahani, Abolfazl Jalili, Wang Bing, ...

Arthur Caria  Brazilian musician clipoems.com My TOP 10. 1 - EMPIRE - Andy Warhol. USA, 1964. 2 - FOG LINE - Larry Gottheim. Canada, 1970. 3 - THE TURIN HORSE - BÉLA TARR, Hungary, 2011. 4 - MOTHLIGHT - Stan Brakhage, USA, 1963. 5 - H2O - Ralph Steiner, USA, 1929. 6 - PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN - Henwar Rodakiewicz, USA, 1931. 7 - CENTERS - Vito Acconci, USA, 1971. 8 - NOTIONS OF SILENCE (1) - Johnnie Lawson, Ireland, 2010. 9 - STILL LIFE - Sam Taylor-Wood, UK, 2001. 10 - 13 LAKES - James Benning, USA, 2004. All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Marc Raymond, Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Kwangwoon University in Seoul, South Korea @marc7593 JEANNE DIELMAN GOODBYE, DRAGON INN A TASTE OF CHERRY SATANTANGO CITY OF SADNESS TOKYO STORY GERTRUD DILLINGER IS DEAD KILLER OF SHEEP CODE UNKNOWN * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey will be published until the final canon.