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

Excerpts from my contemplative cinema

After 5 + years being represented on Vimeo I decided to remove most of my short films from the platform. I created a demo reel to cinephiles keen to my experimental unspoken cinema, slow cinema. My films will be available soon for both individuals and institutions, festival screenings, public programs, exhibitions, museums and galleries and also for educational purpose. A few of my short films are also available on YouTube . 

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