Unspoken Cinema

To Amateurs, with Love (CLIPOEMS, by Arthur Caria) 9'51" (YouTube)  "Avant-Garde Cinema, Experimental Film, Underground Movie, Art Film, Contemplative Cinema, The Cinema of Stasis… whatever the designation, the artistic film of today descends directly from the early spirit of cinematography."  "For more than a hundred years, this lineage of artists struggled to continue existing and achieved this through a significant number of film productions across the world who have been clashed with both the form and the purpose of what was established as mainstream cinema in the 1920s."  Written and edited by Arthur Caria. Music by Arthur Caria.

 Thank you very much to all the 21 voters who participated in this Canon survey for the greatest Contemplative Cinema in 2023. The results for the final Top10 has been published here ( in video ). Now come the statistics along with the full tabulation of all 210 votes. FINAL TOP10 Jeanne Dielman 10 votes Satantango 9 votes The Turin Horse 7 votes Goodbye, Dragon Inn 5 votes An Elephant Sitting Still 4 votes Stalker 4 votes Nostalghia 3 votes The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 3 votes Tiexi Qu: West of the Tracks 3 votes Werckmeister Harmonies 3 votes Like at the S&S 2022 canon , Jeanne Dielman makes the top of our present canon, with a total of 10 votes (=about half of the voters voted for it). No surprise. Congratulation to Chantal AKERMAN! However if we look at the accomplishments by auteurs, Béla TARR sits 3 of his films ( Satantango, The Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies ) in the Top10 (thus splitting his 19 votes among three tit...

My apologizes, I had forgotten to credit Noel Vera in the video, I just fixed it in this updated video:   2023 CCC canon - Unspoken Cinema (YouTube) 6'12" Motion Design by Benoit Rouilly Survey announcement All voters (individual Top10s) : Marc Raymond Arthur Caria Srikanth Srinivasan Peter Labuza Sean Gilman Janos Kis   Justin Remes   Giacomo   Thorsten Botz-Bornstein   André Dias   Julian Ross   Michael Guarneri   Cáit Murphy   Emanuel   Jakob Boer Niels   Benoit Rouilly   Wojciech Sławnikowski   Jędrzej Sławnikowski   Arnaud Laporte   Noel Vera   Full tabulation of votes and stats ( here )

Noel Vera Businessworld (regular contributor), Cineaste Magazine (contributor), Critic After Dark: A Review of Philippine Cinema (author), criticafterdark@blogspot.com (blog author) In alphabetical order: After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda) City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao Hsien) Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German) The Hole (Tsai Ming Liang) News From Home (Chantal Akerman) Out 1 (Jacques Rivette) Oxhide ll (Liu Jiaying) Satantango (Bela Tarr) Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz) Todo todo teros (John Torres)   Bonus : Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Arnaud Laporte dirige l’émission « Affaires Culturelles » sur France Culture "Happy together" Wong Kar Wai "Gerry" Gus Van Sant "Le syndrome asthénique" Kira Mouratova "Apocalypse Now" Francis Ford Coppola "Le ventre de l'architecte" Peter Greenaway "Koyaanisqatsi" Godfrey Reggio "Solaris" Andrei Tarkovski "Le cheval de Turin" Bela Tarr "Aguirre" Werner Herzog "Twin peaks" saison 1,2,3 David Lynch * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.

Jędrzej Sławnikowski, Pełna Sala ( pelnasala.pl ) Votes: Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos) Elephant (Alan Clarke) Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr Béla) Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov) The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu) The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla) Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Lav Diaz) Sleep Has Her House (Scott Barley) An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo) Days (Tsai Ming-liang) * * * All the individual top10 ballots of this  Contemplative Cinema greatest masterpieces survey  will be published until the final canon.