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Chantal Akerman au Jeu de Paume (Paris 2024-25)

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 Chantal Akerman. Travelling Jeu de Paume (Paris) | 28 septembre 2024-19 janvier 2025 "Le Jeu de Paume rend hommage à la cinéaste, artiste et écrivaine belge Chantal Akerman (Bruxelles 1950 – Paris 2015) à travers une exposition exceptionnelle, réalisée avec le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, la Fondation Chantal Akerman et la cinémathèque royale de Belgique." Exposition Chantal Akerman. Travelling (YouTube) 40" (Jeu de Paume) 20 Sept 2024 "Le Jeu de Paume rend hommage à la cinéaste, artiste et écrivaine belge Chantal Akerman (Bruxelles 1950 – Paris 2015) à travers une exposition exceptionnelle. « Chantal Akerman. Travelling » retrace le parcours atypique de cette figure emblématique qui ne cesse d’inspirer et fasciner des générations d’artistes et cinéphiles." Note d'intention (extrait) pour Jeanne Dielman Dépliant & catalogue de l'exposition Ecouter aussi : Coppola/Akerman, des autoportraits en irrécupérables | France Culture  (1...

Ozu's Pillow-Shot (Noel Burch)

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  Pillow shots - OZU Yasujiro (YouTube) 9'35" (Unknown)  * * * "The term “pillow shot” was coined in connection with Ozu’s work by the critic Noël Burch in his book To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema: “I call these images pillow-shots, proposing a loose analogy with the ‘pillow-word’ of classical poetry.” In a note, Burch cites Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner thus: “Makurakotoba or pillow-word: a conventional epithet or attribute for a word; it usually occupies a short, five-syllable line and modifies a word, usually the first, in the next line. Some pillow-words are unclear in meaning; those whose meanings are known function rhetorically to raise the tone and to some degree also function as images.” So (by analogy) a pillow shot serves as a visual “nonsense-syllable” or non sequitur that creates a different expectation for the next scene." Martin Schneider, 2013,  Yasujiro Ozu and the enigmatic art of the pillow shot , in Dangerous Min...

An Elephant Sitting Still (Kinotherapy Movies) Review

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  An Elephant Sitting Still - a Single Review (YouTube) 14'10" (Kinotherapy Movies) 27 dec 2024 "Hu Bo's only feature, "An Elephant Sitting Still" quickly resonated with film lovers worldwide and found it's place in the cinematic canon. This 4 hour intimate excursion through pain and suffering is one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen and is an unequivocal masterpiece. Immersive cinematography and Buddhist philosophy elevate this film to a transcendent level along the ranks of Tarkovsky, Bergman, Fellini, Malick, Tarr, or Weerasethakul. It is undeniably heart-wrenching and gloomy, yet it is rewarding, honest, and an experience that will long escape your mind."

Memoria: Time, Stasis, and Singularity (Constantin Strother)

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  Memoria: Time, Stasis, and Singularity (YouTube) 12'55" (Constantin Strother) 26 Dec 2024 A video essay exploring the connection between Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film, Memoria, and Ray Kurzweil's theory of the Singularity

TSAI's Walker films (Galvan)

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  An Introduction to Tsai Ming-liang Walker Films and Slow Cinema (YouTube) 6'10" (Galvan) 15 june 2024

Maroc contemplatif

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  Silence marocain : un voyage en slow cinema à travers le désert d’Agafay et l’Atlas (YouTube) 14'15' (CAMPBOXY) 28 dec 2024 "Découvrez le Maroc à travers l’objectif du slow cinema, inspiré par les récits poétiques de Béla Tarr et Carlos Reygadas. Ce voyage méditatif capture la beauté tranquille du désert d’Agafay, l’esprit intemporel des villages berbères et les majestueuses montagnes de l’Atlas. Avec des images contemplatives et des paysages sonores authentiques enregistrés sur place, ce film vous invite à vous immerger dans le rythme des paysages et de la culture marocains."