Zen Quartet

(Illustration by Benoit Rouilly)

Thanks for following this 5 months-long series of posts on Zen aesthetics in Contemplative Cinema!

Here are all the links, first the main series by chapters:

• Contemplative Filmmaking in Zen Aesthetics (1 to 7)
• Contemplative Editing With Zen Aesthetics (1 to 5)
• Zen Concepts in Contemplative Performance (1 to 4)
• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (1 to 9)

Then, each individual post, broken down by chapters:

FILMMAKING

• Yohaku: Contemplative Filmmaking in Zen Aesthetics (1)
• Fukinsei: Contemplative Filmmaking in Zen Aesthetics (2)
• Hei: Contemplative Filmmaking in Zen Aesthetics (3)
• Miegakure: Contemplative Filmmaking in Zen Aesthetics (4)
• So: Contemplative Filmmaking in Zen Aesthetics (5)
• Shibui: Contemplative Filmmaking in Zen Aesthetics (6)
• Mono no Aware: Contemplative Filmmaking in Zen Aesthetics (7)

EDITING

• Ma: Contemplative Editing With Zen Aesthetics (1)
• Jikan: Contemplative Editing With Zen Aesthetics (2)
• Jo-Ha-Kyuu: Contemplative Editing With Zen Aesthetics (3)
• Kire: Contemplative Editing With Zen Aesthetics (4)
• Enso: Contemplative Editing With Zen Aesthetics (5)

PERFORMANCE

• Zen Concepts in Contemplative Performance (1): Danshari
• Zen Concepts in Contemplative Performance (2): Iki
• Zen Concepts in Contemplative Performance (3): Seijaku
• Zen Concepts in Contemplative Performance (4): Yuugen

SPECTATORSHIP

• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (1) Shoshin
• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (2) Boketto
• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (3) Chinmoku
• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (4) Yasuragi
• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (5) Wabi-Sabi
• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (6) Ishin-Denshin
• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (7) Ki
• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (8) Mu & Bi
• Zen Aesthetics through Contemplative Spectatorship (9) Hi

Other sources:

• “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism” (Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki; 1934)
• “Living Zen” (Robert Linssen, 1954)
• “To the Distant Observer. Form and Meaning in Japanese Cinema” (Noël Burch, 1979)
• “Japanese Film and the Floating Mind : Cinematic Contemplations of Being” (Justin Vicari, 2016)

Other pages on Unspoken Cinema:

• Contemplative Spectatorship (Zen)
• Enso (Zen Circle)
• Guide to zen (Robert Waldinger)