CCC Auteurs citations in Corpus 2004-2023

 

Filmmakers mentionned in the corpus of 14 books on Slow Cinema, Contemplative Cinema or Cinéma soustractif between 2004 and 2023. In purple, Contemplative Cinema (or Slow Cinema) auteurs. In red, Slow Cinema auteurs only.

Detail of the citations list per corpus. Allcaps for major CCC auteurs, Green for recurrent CCC figureheads (see CCC 1967-2020 by auteur)

Great disparity within the global corpus. Always the same usual suspects (Tarr, Tsai, Alonso, Costa cited by 2/3rd of the books) and other familiar faces (Akerman, Kiarostami, Ceylan, Reygadas, Weerasethakul cited by half of the books), amongst which I consider Ceylan too talkative (the words, the poetry, the discussions are too important to his cinema to be completely Contemplative).

Then come Diaz, JZK, Reichardt, Wang Bing, Bresson, Cavalier, Frammartino, Jarmusch, Ozu, Sokurov, Tarkovsky, Gus van Sant... cited by 1/3rd of the books. Bresson, Ozu and Tarkovsky belong to an older generation (Modernists). Only Diaz, Wang Bing, Frammartino, Sokurov and Gus van Sant (for his Death trilogy) are truly Contemplative.

Attention to the end of the long tail, who only get 1 mention each, basically cherry picking.

I added more names I consider remarkable Contemplative contributors but were not picked by any book on the subject : Govindan Aravindan, Paz Encina, Emmanuel Gras, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Semih Kaplanoglu, Naomi Kawase, Takeshi Kitano, Valérie Massadian, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Carlos Sorin.

The books on Slow/Contemplative Cinema from this study (see the Library page on Unspoken Cinema):

1. Les Films gueules de bois in Trafic n°50 (2004/Antony Fiant)
2. Turbulences and Flow (2007/Yvette Biro)
3. Le cinéma a minima in Trafic (2009/Frederick Sabouraud)
4. Pour une contemplation subversive (2012/Pellet)
5. Slow Movies (2014/Ira Jaffe)
6. Le Cinéma soustractif (2014/Antony Fiant)
7. Slow Cinema (2016/De Luca/Barradas Jorge)
8. The Long Take (2017/Lutz Koepenick)
9. Poetics of Slow Cinema (2018/Emre Caglayan)
10. Rethinking Transcendental Style in Transcedental Style in Film (2018/Paul Schrader)
11. Filmer le quotidien (2019/Leperchey)
12. Human Condition(s) (2021/Nadin Mai)
13. Lo que dura una pelicula (2023/Ferragut)
14. BONUS: Du cinéma contemplatif (2025/Benoit Rouilly)