Showing posts with label Chantal Akerman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chantal Akerman. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Unspoken Cinema Blog 2023 CCC Canon

Together with other filmmakers, film critics, educators, cinephiles, etc... I was honored and asked by Benoit Rouilly critic, expert on slow cinema to reveal 10 of the greatest films of mines related to slow cinema. It wasn't an easy task to mention only 10 directors and their masterpieces, so I extended a little bit the list. I avoided to vote to the same director twice, keep rooms for other masters of slow cinema. 

Please click here to see the result 

If you're curious what others voted for click here


Friday, May 13, 2022

The Gardener (trailer)

Click here to wach the trailer of my first feature length micro budget contemplative avant-garde fiction film.

The film was entirely shot on shoestring budget and took place on and off for a period of 2 years. As well as in my experimental one take short films, I only used extreme long static shots and let the unpredictable occasions happen on outdoor locations. Working without actors, extras, lack of financials, professional equipment, etc... didn't stop me to continue or give up the project, instead encouraged to use the extended, almost limitless time to develop and frame the storyline.  The nearly silent film "home movie" is an experimentation, just like Chantal Akerman's earliest cinema, though here, diegetic outside the frame "off screen" sounds and dialogues are also key elements of the story telling. 

Story line: a middle age expatriate man working as a gardener for wealthy local families to support his own family somewhere in South East Asia, but one day, everything change.

Music: Kai Engel https:// www. kai-engel. com



Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Homage to Chantal Akerman

I shot an hour long experimental contemplative film as a homage dedicated to Chantal Akerman. My film contains two long tracking shots. Each of 30 minutes long. The film was shot entirely at the suburb of Siem Reap, Cambodia just a few minutes drive from the world famous Angkor Wat.

The title is "Route 60" click here to watch Part I. and Part II.