Sommaire 2025
CONTEMPLATIVE CINEMA ARTICLE
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 Aesthetics (4)
- Enso: Contemplative Editing With Zen Aesthetics (5)
- 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
- Substraction aesthetics (Dans le gris)
- Negative Space (Dans le gris)
CITATIONS
- Ozu's Pillow Shot (Noel Burch)
- Slow Cinematic Atmosphere (Boer & de Roo)
- The Awareness of Duration (Shuxiang Wang) Essay
- Architectonics of Time (Hamid Amouzad Khalili)
- Sensing Slowness (Jakob Boer) PhD
- Peter Hutton et les fantômes de l’Hudson River School (Benjamin Léon) FRANÇAIS
- The contemplative style in the ethnographic documentary (Francesco Marano)
- The Art of Visual Storytelling - Aravindan (Alka Mohan)
- Le mutisme au cinéma (Mylène Chave) FRANÇAIS
- Take your Time: On the Pleasures of Cinematic Slowness (Jakob Boer)
- The Timeless Sloth (Anouk De Clercq)
- 5 formes de l'inertie (Hartmut Rosa) FRANÇAIS
- L'ennui profond (Byung-Chul Han) FRANÇAIS
- Gen Z & Stillness (Cerqueiro)
- Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema (Rosa Barotsi)
- Posnarrativo, el cine más allá de la narración (Muñoz Fernández) ESPAÑOL
- Long take and Defamiliarization (Xu)
- Japanese Film and the Floating Mind: Cinematic Contemplations of Being (Vicari)
- Autonomy And Time (Alessandro D'Aloia)
- Sinité du plan-séquence dans le cinéma chinois (Félicien Rioufol) FRANÇAIS
- Plans perdurant et points de montage (Olivier Zuchuat) FRANÇAIS
- Trains et embouteillages (François Truffaut) FRANÇAIS
- Violence and Aesthetics of Awe - SLABOSHPYTSKYI’S The Tribe (Ursula M. Grisham)
- The Return of Subjectivity (Shi Xiong)
- Cinema, the Non-Human and the Ecological Response (Castello Branco)
- Musique live et cinéma contemplatif (Leguier) FRANÇAIS
- Underworld and Death in Subtractive Cinema (Ferragut) ESPAÑOL
- Poétique de la rêverie au cinéma (Adrien-Gabriel Bouché) FRANÇAIS
MORE LIKE THIS
- More Like This (1) Gerry
- More Like This (2) Naked Island
- More Like This (3) Cow
- More Like This (4) Koyaanisqatsi
- More Like This (5) Perfect Days
- More Like This (6) Goodbye, Dragon Inn
- More Like This (7): The Straight Story
ILLUSTRATIONS
- Unspoken Posters (5): Naked Island
- Zen Quartet
- Free DIY Unspoken Cinema Merch (Suleiman)
- Free DIY Unspoken Cinema Merch (Red Turtle)
- Free DIY Unspoken Cinema Merch (Perfect Days)
- Free DIY Unspoken Cinema Merch (Turin Horse)
- Free DIY Unspoken Cinema Merch (An Elephant Sitting Still)
- Free DIY Unspoken Cinema merch (Gerry)
- Free DIY Unspoken Cinema Merch (Werckmeister Harmonies)
- Schrader's Durational Map v. CCC
VIDEO ESSAYS
- TSAI's Walker films (Galvan)
- Memoria: Time, Stasis, and Singularity (Constantin Strother)
- An Elephant Sitting Still (Kinotherapy Movies) Review
- Documentaries where the journey is the destination / Documentaries on the sensory journey (Essay Library's 2025 48 Hour Video Jam)
- How to Recommend Slow Cinema (Archie Marshall)
- The Little Things In Life (Obscure Film)
- A Cinematic Ode to the Ordinary (Up in the Air ft. Zürich)
- Video Essay on Perfect Days V2 (Sophia)
- All About Her Mother (Lillian Crawford)
- An Understanding of Time (Charlie Zehner)
- Blurring the Bounderies (Álvarez-Vázquez)
- Iceberg Foundation: Slow Cinema (The House of Tabula)
- Perfect Days in the Internet Age (FilmFourAll)
- What Is Slow Cinema? (Post-Cinema Era) Chinese video essay
- Preserving Time with Slow Cinema (Franklin Lee)
- A Chinese Dream - The China of Bi Gan (Gully China)
- Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng Are a Perfect Partnership (Mcilwraith)
- Days Past (Michelle Cho)
- ...building unheimlich...considerations on refuges and resistances (Arthur Caria)
- Slow Films and Life (Liminal Movie Project)
- Perfect Days and Slow Cinema (Prime Cinephile)
- Kelly Reichardt video essay (Pompuous Unhelpful Nit)
- The Enigma of Terrence Malick (Auteur Cinema)
- What Slow Films Teach Us About Life (Liminal Movie Project)
- The Haunted Cinema of Pedro Costa (Naremore/Sadlier)
- Embracing Slowness (John Rogers)
- Une expérience cinématographique au rythme méditatif (Santiago Hidalgo)
- framing oppression (24 frames)
- Bi Gan's Lucid Dream (Olivia)
- Why a Perfect Day Looks Nothing Like You Imagine (Cinevision)
- Movies need to shut up (Accented Cinema) video essay
VIDEO CLIPS
- Maroc contemplatif
- Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception (BFI)
- Belá Tarr about the philosophy of filmmaking (European Film Club)
- Imagine : un court métrage de vie ordinaire (Aladin)
- The Art of Time (Akerman)
- Céline Sciamma on Chantal Akerman (BFI)
- Tsai Ming-liang conversation (QAGOMA)
- Charlie Kaufman on the Real World
- Deep sea contemplative webcast (Schmidt Ocean)
- The Art of Slow Filmmaking (Cinora)
- Be Bored More (Harvard)
- Rencontre avec Albert Serra (Potemkine) FRANÇAIS
- Democratic Cinema (Paul Schrader)
FILM REVIEWS
- Jeanne Dielman (Deep Cut podcast)
- Béla Tarr at 70 (Klassiki Podcast)
- Béla Tarr: The Filmmaker Who Broke Time (Klassiki notes)
- Perdre son temps (France Culture) FRANÇAIS
- Béla Tarr: Final Years (Film Directors Explored)
- A Ghost Story podcast (Cinematologists)
- News From Home / No Home Movie (Deep Cut podcast)
- Ben Rivers interview (Klassiki podcast)
OTHERS
- Chantal Akerman au Jeu de Paume (Paris 2024-25) FRANÇAIS
- David Lynch (1946-2025)
- SFF2025
- Best of 2024 (Benoit Rouilly)
- 2024 Recommended Contemplative Films
- Flow ASL
- Flow (Annecy, Golden Globes, Césars, Oscars)
- Lumière 130 ans FRANÇAIS
- Gagnez 2 places pour l'avant première de WANG Bing (Paris) FRANÇAIS
- Renoir (Chie HAYAKAWA) in Cannes 2025
- Slow Burn (Eye Filmmuseum)
- Paravel/Castaing-Taylor (Paris) FRANÇAIS
- 2025 so far, after Cannes
- Nothing in Film (Website of Nothing)
- SlowTV Sweden: The Great Moose Migration
- Le brâme du cerf (Slow TV) FRANÇAIS
- Sommaire 2025
- Lifetime report on the blog Unspoken Cinema (GPT5)
- Krasznahorkai's Nobel Prize in Literature (2025)
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