January 8, 2007

Blog-a-Thon. Contemplative Cinema.

Contemplative Cinema Blog-a-Thon Today marks the beginning of the Contemplative Cinema Blog-a-Thon, hosted by Harry Tuttle at Unspoken Cinema.

"Contemplative Cinema" is defined as "the kind that rejects conventional narration to develop almost essentially through minimalistic visual language and atmosphere, without the help of music, dialogue, melodrama, action-montage, and star system." Though the Blog-a-Thon runs throughout January, the entries are already gathering nicely, and even better, IMHO, many of the voices are entirely new to me.

Bonus for French speakers: A concurrent discussion, "Cinéma Contemplatif?," is rolling along in Le Forum des Cahiers du Cinéma.



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Posted by cphillips at January 8, 2007 1:07 PM

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Thank you very much for the support! Everyone is welcome of course. You can contribute with a post of your own, or even an old post dealing with our topic. Also we are gathering all informations, links, books, articles on whatever could be called "contemplative cinema". You can also exchange ideas for this arbitrary family of films is purely speculative and open for debate.

Posted by: HarryTuttle at January 8, 2007 3:20 PM