Unspoken Cinema

DEBATE Slow Cinema discussion at To Be (Cont'd) 2014 VIDEO CLIPS   Khondji & Parreno on "Zidane, un portrait du XXIe siècle" (Cinémathèque 2017) Takara, La nuit où j'ai nagé (2018/Manivel/Igarashi/Japan) Rethinking Transcendental Style in Film | Paul Schrader Miksang and Contemplative Photography Slow Cinema video essay & Kaili Blues   How Boredom Can Lead To Your Most Brilliant Ideas (Manoush Zomorodi) Late 1890s - A Trip Through Paris, France The Scientific Benefits of Boredom ILLUSTRATIONS CCC Masters : Abbas Kiarostami CCC Masters : Tsai Ming-Liang CCC Masters : Wang Bing CCC Masters : Apichatpong Weerasethakul CCC Masters : Aleksandr Sokurov CCC Masters : Abderrhamane Sissako CCC Masters : Albert Serra CCC Masters : Sergei Loznitsa Durational Cinema Map (from Schrader's) OTHERS Venice Film Festival 2018 Edito de Positif (Ciment) Juillet 2018 Yearly Tables of Content / Sommaire génral annuel

"Missing" (in cinema) for 13 years : Ariane MICHEL who last made a unique film Les hommes  in 2008. She since has made conferences, gallery installations and exhibitions. She is mainly interested by animals, their vision, how we perceive them and how they perceive us. I am awaiting for a new CCC feature film in the same vein as this one. Les hommes (=Humans) is a French documentary by artist Ariane Michel. Upon the occasion of a scientific journey on the East-Greenland arctic seas, onboard, Tara, a schooner (2 masted, aluminium-hulled sailboat) of the oceanographic community, Ariane Michel cautiously films the Nature surrounding them. This hostile environement where humans are mostly absent, is an intemporal world. Few animals and fewer vegetation reign supreme, practically alone, on this icecap. Ariane Michel positions these silhouettes of scientists as intruders on this protected landscape, and takes the point of view of the fauna and flora, in a very quiet and langui...

FILM REVIEWS An Elephant Sitting Still (2018/HU Bo/China) Spoiler Territory (An Elephant Sitting Still) Contrechamp interdit (An Elephant Sitting Still) A press review (An Elephant Sitting Still) On a Dirt Road (Contemplative video) Rooftop Under Construction (Contemplative video) Sidewalk Exterior-Night (Contemplative video) Oyster Factory (2015/Kazuhiro SODA/Japan-USA) Inland Sea (2018/Kazuhiro SODA/Japan-USA) INTERVIEW Interview with Observational Filmmakers Kazuhiro SODA & Kiyoko KASHIWAGI VIDEO CLIPS IT MUST BE HEAVEN (Elia SULEIMAN) Press Conference Cannes 2019 Matthew BARNEY's new film : REDOUBT (2019) How to see early silent films (68mm Biograph) Flânerie 2.0 (Chloé Galibert-Laîné) RESOURCE Comparative Duration in WANG Bing's oeuvre Comparative Duration in Lav DIAZ's oeuvre Yearly Table of Content - Sommaire général annuel  

LETTER Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL's Cinema of Now (FILMKRANT) VIDEO CLIPS In Praise of Slowness (Carl Honoré) TEDtalk Masterclass de WANG Bing (2018) Slow TV Brume, cailloux et métaphysique (2014/Lisa Matuszak/France) Un très long temps d'exposition (Chloé Galibert-Laîné) RESSOURCE CCC 2010-2019 Decade Top10 Nordic Slow Cinema (interactive presentation) HONG Sang-soo's favourite films (2017) CCC 1967-2020 by auteur Yearly Table of Content - Sommaire général annuel  

FILM REVIEWS Nasumice / Adrift (2018) Caleb Burdeau   Azul el mar (2019) Sabrina Moreno Frammartino's Il Buco at Venice2021 (reviews) La tour d'introspection (Shimizu) - 3 continents Pedro (2021) by Natesh HEGDE - 3 continents INTERVIEWS Interview With Caleb Burdeau, auteur of NASUMICE Interview with Sabrina Moreno (Azul el mar)   Natesh HEGDE interview for Pedro (2021) - 3 continents VIDEO ESSAYS What is Slow Cinema (Francesco Quario) Orders of Time and Motion (Kevin B. Lee) Satantango Slow Cinema and Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light (Jordan Scholig) Stellet Licht by Carlos Reygadas (Luke Cox) Slow Cinema : The Art of Boredom (Elizabeth Pillar) 2020 It's Hard Being a Human - The Living Paintings of Roy Andersson (Film Qualia) What is Slow Cinema? (24frames) Temporality in Slow Cinema (Cameron Niblock) 2021 Slow Cinema - Tsai, Lynch, etc. (Robin D) video essay 2021 Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Surreal Cinema (The Lookout) VIDEO CLIPS Lumière, Wahrol, Slow Cinema, Docum...

Contemplative Cinema at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 COMPETITION Lingui (Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN; Chad)  Memoria (Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL; Thailand) France (Bruno DUMONT; France) UN CERTAIN REGARD Commitment Hasan (Semih KAPLANOGLU; Turkey) CANNES PREMIERES Evolution (Kornél MUNDRUCZO; Hungary) SEANCES SPECIALES Babi-Yar. Contexte (Sergei LOZNITSA; Ukraine) ... maybe more

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  Slow Cinema : The Art of Boredom (Elisabeth Pillar) 4 may 2020 - 7'41" Related read on Unspoken Cinema : On Being Bored (Phillips) On Boredom (Charney) “ Time-Stilled Space-Slowed: How Boredom Matters ” (Ben Anderson, 2004) Long and boring art movies (Guardian)

 Michael Guarneri just sent me this letter I publish here with his permission. He talks about Unspoken Cinema, Lav Diaz's films, and his interviews with him, which made it into a full-fledged book : " Conversations with Lav Diaz " (2020). * * * Dear Benoit, hello, this is Michael Guarneri from Italy. I hope you are doing alright. Back in 2008, after watching Lav Diaz’s Heremias: Book One – The Legend of the Lizard Princess (2006), Death in the Land of Encantos (2007) and Melancholia (2008) on Italian state TV, I did an Internet search and, thanks to a fellow cinephile’s recommendation, I began following your blog, which was (and still is) very useful for my cinematic explorations. Your "Auteurs" list introduced me to the cinema of Lisandro Alonso and other singular filmmakers, while your list of books and online resources provided me with plenty of food for thought. I was honored to see that you have recently listed my book Conversations with Lav Diaz in you...

"Slow films focus on the unseen, the invisible, stories from the margins of our societies. They tell stories that happen daily around the world, events that, perhaps, happen to our next-door neiighbour. Yet these stories remain silent because they are stories that are ordinary and therefore removed from view." [..] "If the films I'm writing about in this book have all been made between 1994 and 2018, it is not a coincidence. When I look at this time period, the films have all been made throughout my tumultuous childhood full of conflicts and war on television, my adolescence which was marked by 9/11 and the subsequent fracturing of the world into 'us' and 'them', and whose repercussions we can still feel today." [..] " Human Condition(s) is a personal reading of slow films. I do not pretend that this book seeks to write the objective truth about a selection of films. Instead, I deliberately create a personal document to show the openess of ...

  Slow Cinema and Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light (Jordan Schonig) 10' 6 dec 2020

  Stellet Licht / Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas (video essay by Luke Cox) 5' International Cinema 2 - option 2a (14 Feb 2018) "A video in which you explain and critically evaluate the recurring characteristics of the overarching cinematography and/or other stylistic elements in one particular film by using several scenes from that film."

  Wang Bing filme la Chine qu'on cache sous le tapis (Tracks ARTE) vidéo FRENCH 8'49" 11 février 2021 * * * Ecoutez aussi sur France Culture : dans une serie de 3 épisodes sur la Chine industrielle dans l'art, une émission de 58min sur le premier film documentaire de WANG Bing : A l'ouest des rail (2003), et sur Argent Amer (2016) WANG Bing ou les oubliés du rêve Chinois (France Culture; 15 Octobre 2020) 58' Aussi dans "Par les temps qui courent" (France Culture) par Marie Richeux, sur Argent Amer (2016) : WANG Bing : "En choisissant le documentaire, j'ai choisi la voie de la liberté" (France Culture; 20 novembre 2017) 58'

  THE BEGINNING Unspoken Cinema : What first film did you see that sparked an impulse to make films yourself ? When was it ? How did it happen ? How did you choose cinema ? Sabrina Moreno : Since I was a child I was very imaginative and was making stories all the time. My father said I lived in a fantasy bubble. And I remember when I was 15 years old, I saw Natural born killers , then I knew there was a wild world I had no idea about. It was shoking but at the same time it had something that sparked in myself. I understood cinema will make me travel out of my boring village where I lived at the time. I continued writing stories and I began theater. So when I turned 18 and I had to choose a carrer, I thought to try cinema. But I didn’t know how it would be. After the first week studying cinema I knew I was right and I felt fortunate. UC : Who are your cinematographic inspirations, your film references ? SM : I had several inspir...

  Orders of Time and Motion (video essay by Kevin B. Lee, october 2020) 19'20" on Béla TARR's Satantango (1994)