CCC FAQ #11 : What if I am lost on the Unspoken Cinema blog?

Contemporary Contemplative Cinema Frequently Asked Questions #11:

What if I am lost on the Unspoken Cinema blog ?

No worries. Follow this simple guide. Unspoken Cinema is a blog dedicated to the studies of the Contemplative Cinema aesthetics. I post my thoughts on Contemplative Cinema, my researches and findings, some film reviews or interviews of mine. Also I cite other authors speaking about it, or video interviews and masterclasses of CCC auteurs. And more and more recently video-essays made by film students and academics since it is in fashion nowadays.


On this blog, there are Films Recommandations which lists all the films deemed to belong to this family, year by year since 1960. And the comments section there is open for more recommendations by the readers.

There is a virtual Library which lists all the Books published on this very subject since 2005, as well as the Monographs on individual CCC auteurs, the Periodics, the Theses written by film students on this topic, and the academic or critical articles accessible on the web. All the useful resource if you want to research and write on Contemplative Cinema, or if you simply want to read more on the subject because you love watching this kind of films and want to know more about them.

Accompanied by a wider Bibliography page, an older page where I used to collect all references around  Contemplative Cinema, so all books written before 2000 on themes such as Contemplation, Wordlessness, Emptiness, Time, Duration, Tempo, Non-narrativity, Flânerie, Ennui, Mundanity, Landscape, and more...

And a Contact page to stay in touch with me, the author of this blog. You can find there my succint bio and a brief history of the blog, as well as the links where to find me on the social networks.


This blog exists for 17 years now, there are 670 posts to date and 1270 comments. This much content may seem overwhelming. But there are a few ways to find your way.

The first go-to place of interest will be the Index page, where you may find all yearly table of content, with two special pages for the Blogathon events. In each table of content page (or Sommaire in French), posts are linked under a certain theme (like CCC Defintions, Film review, Citations, Interviews, Video essays...).

But that’s not all, the main pages are extracted from the mass of posts too.

Contemplative Cinema Intitiation is a short primer on CCC (in 8 langages) for newbies who would like to discover their first Contemplative film.

The FAQ page answers the common questions you may always wanted to ask…

There is a page where I link to all my writing on CCC over the years at Unspoken Cinema, Screenville and beyond, under the nom de plume HarryTuttle, or as Benoit Rouilly. My texts on CCC definitions, my illustrations, my film reviews, my interviews, and more.

The CCC Videographic Criticism page is where all the video essays and other kinds of videos are linked, by theme, auteurs, films… so if you look for a video this is the page to check out.

The (Technical) Minimum Profile, is an old page from 2007 where I wrote my first theoretical tentative definition for CCC.

The Figureheads graph is a page for the 22 most iconic CCC auteurs and their films from 1967 to 2020.

The Genealogy page has an infographic on the family tree in cinema history leading to the various strains of CCC today. Along with a French text written in 2021.

The Auteurs Directory is an old page from 2012 with the main figure heads and all satellites filmmakers ranked by country of origin.

The Durational Cinema Map, is an infographic inspired by the map published by Schrader in 2018.

The Basics page is an infographic summing up all the "don'ts" in CCC, which obstruct contemplation in films.

And the Links Pages by Auteur are old pages where was gathered infos, articles and links about CCC auteurs.


If this is not enough, you can always search the blog for keywords in the search bar at the top, that will bring up all related posts.

There are also the blogtags on each post that help you find an article by themes, auteurs or nature (available in the sidebar if you’re on a computer).

THEMES : Absence | Alienation | Contemplation | Emptiness / Vide | Ennui | Landscape / Paysage | Mundanity / Quotidienneté | Plotlessness / Sans récit | Silence / Sans Parole | Slowness / Lenteur | Wordlessness / Non-dit

AUTEURS : Abbas KIAROSTAMI | Albert SERRA | Aleksandr SOKUROV | Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL | Benedek FLIEGAUF | Bruno DUMONT | Carlos REYGADAS | Chantal AKERMAN | Darezhan OMIRBAEV | James BENNING | Kazuhiro SODA | Lav DIAZ | Lisandro ALONSO | Pedro COSTA | Petter HUTTON | Semih KAPLANOGLU | Sharunas BARTAS | TARR Béla | TSAI Ming-Liang | WANG Bing

NATURE : Aesthetic | Analysis | Camerawork | Citation | Contemplative Cinema | Criticism | Documentary | Film Review | Interview | Narration | Resource | Video clip

Finally there is a FORUM for you to post off-topics comments, questions, recommandations and opinions

N.B. You may click on all the words highlighted in red, they will link you to another page of this blog.