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Can /film/ recommend me some good slow-paced, meditative and spiritual кино for me to watch?
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No.10957
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Peter B Hutton - At Sea
This is an experimental documentary. It is truly silent so that you simply focus on the images
<Renowned for his exquisitely photographed land- and cityscapes, Peter Hutton's latest film is an epic story of the birth, life, and death of the modern container ship. Shot over a period of three years, At Sea opens on a hyper-modern South Korean shipyard, where supertankers loom over the workers who build them, then journeys through the swells and storms of the North Atlantic, and closes on a maritime grave in Bangladesh where ship breakers scrap the beached leviathans piece by piece under medieval conditions. Beautifully shot and keenly observed, Hutton's film showcases the environmental and human dramas that play out in the life cycle of this invisible engine of globalization and modern-day Noah's Ark
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No.10971
The films of Franco Piavoli definitely. Start with Nostos: Il Ritorno
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No.10972
>>10957
>>10971
thanks !
new to me.
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No.11078
A good blog for this is https://unspokencinema.blogspot.co.uk/
with a comprehensive list of "contemplative" films at https://unspokencinema.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/chronology.html | http://web.archive.org/web/20171125083435/https://unspokencinema.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/chronology.html
Tentative Chronology for (BROAD) Contemplative Cinema
Maybe the term "Contemplative Cinema" is a little nebulous and confusing, but hopefully the following films give a better idea of what is this sort of trend, opposed to conventional narration. This tentative list doesn't cover all territories and aspects yet, so please edit/correct/add any complementary information to the list.
(in red : strict model, see the minimum profile here, and the genealogy map here)
7 sub-families of C.C.C. (Contemporary Contemplative Cinema) with their figureheads :
[A] Contemplative Documentary (Lumière-Sokurov-Benning)
[B] Non-Actors (Flaherty-Costa)
[C] Contemplative Mundanity (Tsai-Bartas)
[D] Laconic Conversation (Tarkovsky-Jancso-Tarr)
[E] Mainstream Contemplation (Angelopoulos-Wong Kar wai)
[F] Stylized Contemplation (Kaurismaki-Andersson)
[G] Fantasized Contemplation (Barney)
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No.11079
>>11078
>Mainstream Contemplation
>Angelopoulos
WHEEZE.
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No.11082
Pic related
Very much inspired by Tarkovsky with a beautiful ending
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No.11083
>>11082
That looks good but I only find a 700MB. do you know of something better?
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No.11086
>>11083
Nah the DVDrip seems to be it afaik
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No.11088
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No.11096
>>11086
700MB is okay, maybe, for the short running time of 67 min.
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No.11099
The op pic has reminded me of “Three days” by Sharunas Bartas.
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No.11128
>>10689
I don't see how this film is meditative at all. It's almost slapstick; it plays like a comedy, despite one or two moments of thoughtful dialogue. Not to mention that it's insulting to anyone with even a basic knowledge of psychiatry or mental illness.
If you're interested in documentaries, check out some Werner Herzog. Lots of beautiful shots with choral soundtracks, can recommend Inferno and the one about cave paintings in France.
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No.11129
>>11099
>>11099
I still haven't watched anything from Bartas. Do you like him? Is Three Days a good introduction, or something else?
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No.11136
>>11129
I've only seen A Casa. Amazing aesthetic. He really has an eye for truly interesting shots.
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No.11144
>>11136
Cool, I'll try to watch both
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No.11307
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No.11312
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No.11322
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Theory: This thread is popular because anyone posting on /film/ has above-average patience
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No.11630
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>>11307
related:
Paul Schrader on Revisiting Transcendental Style in Film | TIFF 2017
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No.11631
>>11307
>>11630
Watching the Paul Schrader video reminded me of Baxter Vera Baxer with Delphine Seyrig, written and directed by Marguerite Duras. I didn't enjoy it because I was expecting good things from Duras but "nothing happened". I would like to hear if anyone has a different opinion of it.
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No.11632
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No.11633
>>11632
I think this film is chaotic, not meditative.
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No.11870
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>>10667
I thought Spring Summer Autumn Winter and Spring would be the first film suggested to you, but it wasn't mentioned.
This is the definitive meditation movie. No dialogue, all takes place on a peaceful lake. Heavy buddhist influence.
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No.11872
>>11870
The name always made me think it was some Asian family drama, oops
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No.12015
uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives
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No.12018
>>11870
>Heavy buddhist influence.
not really? i thought kim ki duk didn't research anything about buddhism and just made everything up
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No.12030
>>12018
Perhaps you were looking for a more direct and glaringly obvious explanation of Buddhism in it? It definitely captures the heart of its lessons.
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No.12090
Here is an article about the increased use of landscape in certain types of films. The article says that Babette Mangolte's The Sky on Location is "painfully underrated". I wish I could find it because it looks beautiful.
Why Are Artist Filmmakers Turning to Landscape?
A genre more associated with painting, an interest in the environment grounds a number of recent artists’ films
https://frieze.com/article/why-are-artist-filmmakers-turning-landscape
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No.12119
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No.12641
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No.12642
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No.12645
>>12641
Wow, this one looks absolutely incredible. Thanks for sharing.
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No.13267
Tsai Ming-liang has a new film and a new interview about it : https://thefilmstage.com/features/tsai-ming-liang-on-your-face-the-cinematic-power-of-close-ups-and-teaming-with-ryuichi-sakamoto/
(Maybe it's best if you watch it before you read all about his thought process)
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No.14369
Some thoughts from director Nathaniel Dorsky on "devotional cinema"
http://nathanieldorsky.net/About
>In his book Devotional Cinema (2003), Dorsky writes of the long-standing link between art and health as well as the transformative potential of watching film. He also writes of the limitations of film when its vision is subservient to an idea or representative of language description, which can describe a world but does not actually see it.
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No.14374
Matka Joanna od aniolów AKA Mother Joan of the Angels by Jerzy Kawalerowicz is an excellent film. If you like Tarkovsky, Tarr or Dreyer, you'll like this film
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No.14544
A meditation on a post-human world.
Very good.
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No.14546
>>14544
Cool, I haven't seen that one but I recently got into Geyrhalter
He's a good director for this thread.
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No.15477
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No.15489
>>15477
Very nice find. Visually stunning film with beautiful recreations of famous paintings. The soundtrack is also very nice (I particularly liked the Gigli song at Frame 2 and the Madame Butterfly aria at Frame 6). The songs really fit the mood of the gorgeous recreations of paintings.
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No.15490
>>15477
Could also be called: 24 Screen Savers: The Kiarostami Collection
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No.15491
>>15477
Are any of the Criterion bonus features for this DVD available online? I looked on the internet and it says that an interview with Kiarostami's son Ahmad, film critic Godfrey Cheshire and the documentary "Print: In Memory of Abbas Kiarostami" are included on the Criterion DVD.
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No.15640
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No.15644
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No.15647
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No.15654
Have you seen anything from Nuri Bilge Ceylan before? He has great pastoral stuff
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No.15656
How do I appreciate slow cinema? Watched some of Vive L'Amour, got bored...maybe 2x speed?
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No.15657
>>15656
I don't like all of the slow cinema I watch. I wary about watching art installations as if they're a normal film. It seems like they are intended to be screened in a gallery with people milling around, not so much by someone on their couch doing nothing else.
Usually it takes a while for me to get into the "rhythm" of a slow film, if that makes sense. Then I will either love the film for being a transcendent experience or hate it for wasting my time. The good stuff keeps me interested enough to keep exploring other titles.
James Benning for example I appreciate how he finds unique locations to perfectly compose a frame. My eyes move around the image much like I'd do with a photograph. Then as a "finale" to the brief experience something interesting may happen within the frame.
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No.15660
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No.15664
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No.15665
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