Unspoken Cinema

  You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why. (YouTube) 5'49" (Harvard Business Review) 26 aug 2025 "Boredom isn’t a bug—it’s a feature. Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks explains why boredom unlocks creativity, activates a powerful brain network, and might even protect you from depression. Learn how the mind wanders—and why that’s a very good thing."

Le brâme du cerf (Slow TV) sur France Télévision, en direct et en replay. "Plongez au cœur de l'Espace Rambouillet et laissez-vous surprendre par le brame du cerf. Pendant trois semaines (depuis le 8 septembre 2025), France 3 Paris Île-de-France déploie sept caméras pour vous offrir une Slow TV inédite, 24 heures sur 24, où chaque souffle du vent, chaque murmure des feuilles et chaque cri du cerf devient une invitation à ralentir et à respirer loin du tumulte urbain." "Derrière votre écran, installez-vous comme si vous étiez tapis derrière un arbre. Vous voici au cœur de l'Espace Rambouillet, une réserve naturelle créée il y a plus de cinquante ans pour mieux comprendre la forêt et ses grands animaux sauvages. La vie s’y rythme au son de ce chant sauvage. Le brame du cerf, c’est l’irruption du sauvage dans notre quotidien. Une respiration brute dans un environnement où le temps ralentit.  Ce programme est une invitation à se reconnecter à une nature qui ne se ra...

  Rencontre avec Albert Serra // "Tardes de la soledad" (9/09/2025) (YouTube) 1h48' (Boutique Potemkine) 16 sept 2025

  an elephant sitting still (2018): framing oppression (YouTube) 6'04" (24 frames) 6 june 2021

Watch More Like This Film : The Straight Story (1999/Lynch) keywords = Road trip + Solitude + Vehicule + Routine (* Non-Contemplative films) More motorcycle: The Brown Bunny (2003/Gallo) More van: Nomadland (2020/Zhao) More dog: Wendy & Lucy (2008/Reichardt) More people: Stranger Than Paradise (1984/Jarmusch) More car: The Taste of Cherry (1997/Kiarostami) More WC: Perfect Day (2023/Wenders) More desert: Sirat (2025/Laxe) *More buddies:  Down By Law  (1986/Jarmusch) list on my Letterboxd

164. Slow Cinema as Democratic Cinema -- Paul Schrader (YouTube) 46'05"  (Graham Culbertson) 25 august 2025 "In normal cinema, the goal of the director is to control the audience, to direct their gaze, to dictate their emotions. What does it mean when directors make movies where the audience is allowed to decide what the film means to them? Legendary filmmaker Paul Schrader (screenwriter of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull; director of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and First Reformed) ,  joins me to discuss his book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer and the democratic nature of slow cinema."

"Les films sont plus harmonieux que la vie, Alphonse. Il n’y a pas d’embouteillages dans les films. Il n’y a pas de temps morts. Les films avancent comme des trains, tu comprends, comme des trains la nuit… " François Truffaut (jouant le réalisateur dans La Nuit américaine ; 1973) à Jean-Pierre Léaud (jouant le jeune premier) Truffaut ne connaissait pas les films contemplatifs à l'époque.

  visual essay: Bi Gan's Lucid Dream (YouTube) 5'22" (Olivia) 14 jan 2022

latest addition to the Library page: “Rejecting ‘slow’ as disparaging, Harry Tuttle’s Unspoken Cinema proposes ‘contemporary contemplative cinema.’ Comprised of thirty-four single-take tracking shots in a 126-minute running time, The Tribe employs the contemplative, durational aesthetics commonly associated with slow cinema. Slow cinema circulates within a specific cultural and economic sphere enabled by international film festivals, where its long takes and resistance to conventional narrative foster heightened spectatorial awareness. Rather than passively absorbing story, the viewer is drawn into a realm where reality appears in excess of signification, approaching but never fully yielding meaning. This sustained distance invites an ethical gaze, compelling spectators to look, to regard, and to take care of what they see.” Ursula M. Grisham ;  Violence and Aesthetics of Awe -- Looking at Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi's The Tribe  ; 2018 / UK

  Why a Perfect Day Looks Nothing Like You Imagine - Perfect Days (2023) (YouTube) 12'06" (Cinevision) 10 August 2025 "In today's video we'll be exploring Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days," a film that completely shifts how we think about finding meaning in ordinary life. We follow Hirayama, a man living alone in Tokyo who spends his days cleaning public restrooms, driving through the city, and listening to classic rock on cassette tapes, yet there's something incredibly profound about his simple existence that makes you question what we're actually missing in our own lives. Wenders doesn't give us dramatic chase scenes or epic heroes. Instead, he invites us to witness the beauty of everyday moments through that intimate 4:3 aspect ratio that makes you feel like you're right there with Hirayama as he pauses to notice a tree through a window or finds connection in the smallest details. His work isn't just a task, it's an act of pres...

 Latest addition to the Library page : "Since the term "slow movie" was coined in 2003, the "fast-slow" movie debate has become a new academic focus, but there has never been a clear standard for "fast" and "slow" movies. However, there has never been a clear standard for "fast" and "slow" movies, and the discussion of "fast and slow" has often fallen into a solid binary pattern. The unique aesthetic characteristics and viewing experience of "slow movies" have a unique impact and inspiration on the audience, and can even prompt the return of hu-man subjectivity, which is of great significance to our understanding of "slow movies" and thinking about the "fast-slow dispute". It is of great significance to our understand-ing of "slow movie" and thinking about the "fast-slow controversy".  [..] Even after we walk out of the theater, the deep impression left by the vi...