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CONTEMPLATIVE CINEMA ARTICLE Convenience vs Contemplation (Cinematic Tropes) ZEN AESTHETICS IN CONTEMPLATIVE CINEMA (AI) The Broken Bowl (a poetic view of contemplative criticism) Zen Quartet 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) 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 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 Aest...

  "...building unheimlich...considerations on refuges and resistances"(english subtitles) Arthur Caria (YouTube) 10'31" (CLIPOEMS) 2 August 2025 Arthur Caria discusses his artistic motivations as a filmmaker, addressing Contemplative cinema, Stasis films, and Minimalist films. (See his complete work at clipoems.com ) Read also (my reviews of 2 Clipoems of Arthur Caria) at Unspoken Cinema: Sidewalk - Exterior : Night (contemplative video) Rooftop under construction (contemplative video)

 In Argentina, since July 2025 and until August the 10th, Schmidt Ocean is casting live its deep sea exploration of the underwater canyon of Mar del Plata, 4000 meters under the surface, off the coast of Buenos Aires. These live streaming on their YouTube channel  for hours on end, have been captivating the Argentine audience, with over a million views per video, commented in Spanish. It reminds of the Slow TV in Norway, or the Great Moose Migration in Sweden.

  Adaptation - Robert Mckee vs Charlie Kaufman scene (YouTube) 4'34" (Outstanding Screenplays) 19 May 2021 ADAPTATION. (2002/Jonze/USA) Nicolas Cage (playing Charlie Kaufman) question to screenwriting guru Robert McKee at a seminar Charlie Kaufman : Sir, What if a writer is attempting to write a story where nothing much happens? Where people don’t change, they don’t have any epiphanies. They struggle and are frustrated, and nothing is resolved. More a reflection of the real world. Robert McKee : The real world? Charlie Kaufman : Yes sir. Robert McKee : The real fucking world. First of all, you write a screenplay without a conflict or crisis, you’ll bore your audience to tears. Secondly, nothing happens in the world? are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There is genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world someone sacrifice his life to save somebody else. every fucking day, someone somewhere takes a conscious decision to dest...

Latest addition to the Library page at Unspoken Cinema: "Even though slow cinema intends to have the audience attend to all the details of real life, it by no means tries to submerge the viewer within its mundaneness of it. Just the opposite, it tries to defamiliarize the audience with the images of life they experience. The perspective shaped by the long take fixes the viewer in a designated spot, at which the viewer becomes a bystander and gazer of other people’s life, since this kind of gaze is rare in real life.  The effort to introduce defamiliarization in slow cinema is triggered by the fact that the viewer finds it unattractive to watch something familiar on the screen. As mentioned earlier, according to Bazin, the aim of long-take photography is to preserve the spatial-temporal continuum so that the viewers are involved as much as possible as the duration of the long take is synchronized to the real-time that the viewer is experienci...

  Béla Tarr, Hungary’s maestro of melancholy (YouTube) 19'56" (Klassiki) 21 juillet 2025 "Today is the seventieth birthday of one of the true greats: Béla Tarr, Hungary’s maestro of slow cinema melancholy. So, to celebrate, host Sam Goff is reading from our companion to the life and times of this icon of eastern European film – from his early days as a schoolboy anarchist to his position as a grandee of world cinema." Klassiki Journal