I’ve been making 16mm durational urban landscape voiceover films, slowly but surely, since the late ‘90s. My short film Blue Diary premiered at the Berlinale in 1998. My two features, The Joy of Life (2005) and The Royal Road (2015) both premiered in the prestigious New Frontiers section at the Sundance Film Festival and have been as wildly successful as experimental films can be. Which is to say, they remain fairly obscure. My small but enthusiastic fan-base frequently asks me for recommendations of films that are similar to my own in terms of incorporating durational landscapes and voiceover and a meditative pace. While it is certainly one of the smallest subgenres in the realm of filmmaking, here are a handful of excellent landscape cinema examples by the practitioners I know best. I confess that my expertise here is limited and hope that the learned Mubi community will chime in with additions in the comments field below.
- 10/11/2016
- MUBI
"Charlie Brackett summed it up beautifully, I think, when he said that in Europe you could open a picture with clouds, dissolve slowly to clouds, and dissolve again to more clouds. In America, though, he said, you open with clouds, you then dissolve to an airplane, and in the next shot the airplane's gotta explode." —John Sturges
“The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.” —Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
Who'd be a haruspex? In ancient Rome, members of this holy profession pored over the entrails of freshly slaughtered animals, seeking portents among blood and guts. Divination as a...
“The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.” —Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
Who'd be a haruspex? In ancient Rome, members of this holy profession pored over the entrails of freshly slaughtered animals, seeking portents among blood and guts. Divination as a...
- 12/1/2014
- by Neil Young
- MUBI
The 20th Bradford International Film Festival reveals full programme including seven world premieres.
The 20th Bradford International Film Festival (March 27-April 6) will screen 127 films, including seven world premieres and 25 UK premieres.
The opening night film will be India’s The Lunchbox directed by Ritesh Batra produced by and also starring Irrfan Khan.
Steven Knight’s Locke starring Tom Hardy will close the festival.
Other films include a world premiere of Velorama from the UK director Daisy Asquith. She will introduce her new documentary along with musician Bill Nelson. This feature was created from BFI archive material to celebrate a century of the bicycle as part of the Sheffield Doc/Fest Tour De Cinema in Yorkshire Festival.
The other world premieres include:
Bnsf, James Benning (Us) Banya (short) (Russia)Lada (short) (Russia)The Kiss, Charlie Swinbourne (UK)Secrets of Nature (new score by Metamono)Hells Hinges (new score by The Dodge Brothers)
Other selections include John Curran’s [link...
The 20th Bradford International Film Festival (March 27-April 6) will screen 127 films, including seven world premieres and 25 UK premieres.
The opening night film will be India’s The Lunchbox directed by Ritesh Batra produced by and also starring Irrfan Khan.
Steven Knight’s Locke starring Tom Hardy will close the festival.
Other films include a world premiere of Velorama from the UK director Daisy Asquith. She will introduce her new documentary along with musician Bill Nelson. This feature was created from BFI archive material to celebrate a century of the bicycle as part of the Sheffield Doc/Fest Tour De Cinema in Yorkshire Festival.
The other world premieres include:
Bnsf, James Benning (Us) Banya (short) (Russia)Lada (short) (Russia)The Kiss, Charlie Swinbourne (UK)Secrets of Nature (new score by Metamono)Hells Hinges (new score by The Dodge Brothers)
Other selections include John Curran’s [link...
- 2/28/2014
- ScreenDaily
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