User:Scrubwren/sandbox

The following is an exhaustive list of movies that are considered [by some guy on Mubi] to be part of so-called contemplative cinema (or meditative/slow cinema). It lists every movie, short film or series[1] that was, as of December 31, 2021, featured on any of the following lists:

  1. Slow Immersion's Contemplative Cinema - A few more additions to the collection
  2. any of the lists he mentions in the description:
    1. Slow Immersion's Unspoken/Contemplative Cinema, which is based on Harry Tuttle's blog
    2. © <',))( Astro-Tofupraxographer's Contemplative Cinema Starter Pack
    3. paxy's Worship of Silence
    4. House of Leaves' Contemplative Cinema is a Cause to Celebrate Consciousness, Cuz
    5. Nadin's Go Slow
    6. True4's Russian Meditative Films
    7. mymovieslists' Screening Boredom: The History and Aesthetics of Slow Cinema
  3. Slow Immersion's Berliner Schule / Berlin School - My favourites from the group

As far as I can tell, only the first Slow Immersion's and Nadin's lists are still updated.

Pre-L'Avventura movies


  • The Seasons (1961)
  • Domenica Sera (1962)
  • The Blue Planet (1981)
  • Nostos: The Return (1989)
  • Voices Through Time (1996)
  • At the First Breath of Wind (2002)
  • Frammenti (2012)
  • Festa (2016)



  • Manuele Cecconello:
    • Olga e Il Tempo - Parte Prima: Minima del Mattino (2007)
    • Olga e Il Tempo - Parte Seconda: Equinozio del Romeriggio (2008)
  • Michela Occhipinti: Letter from the Desert (Eulogy to Slowness) (2010)
  • Armin Linke: Alpi (2011)
  • Roberto Minervini:
  • Andrea Pallaoro: Medeas (2013)
  • Riccardo Palladino: The Mount of Ants (2017)
  • Salvatore Insana: The Heat Cognition (2017)
  • Tommaso Donati:
    • A Song from the Future (2017)
    • Monte Amiata (2018)
  • Fabrizio Ferraro: Les Unwanted de Europa (2018)
  • Gianfranco Rosi: Notturno (2020)

Western Europe: France and Benelux

Directors of French New Wave



  • Jean Eustache, Jean-Michel Barjol: The Pig (1970)
  • Fernand Deligny, Jean-Pierre Daniel, Josée Manenti: The Slightest Gesture (1971)


  • This Answering Service Takes No Messages (1979)
  • Thérèse (1986)
  • Libera Me (1993)
  • La Rencontre (1996)



  • Frans Van de Staak: Sepio (1997)


Central European cinema











Cinema of Southeast Europe

  • Mircea Săucan: Meanders (1966)


  • Aida Begić: Snow (2008)
  • Vladimir Perišić: Ordinary People (2009)
  • Angelos Frantzis: In the Woods (2010)
  • Athina Rachel Tsangari: Attenberg (2010)
  • Dane Komljen:
    • Bodily Function (2011)
    • Surplus of Wind (2014)
    • All the Cities of the North (2015)
  • Spiros Stathoulopoulos: Meteora (2012)
  • Vladimir Todorovic: Disappearing Landscape (2013)
  • Christos Gkotsis: Pledge (2014)
  • Dimitar Kutmanov: Ecce Homo (2015)
  • Kyros Papavassiliou: Impressions of a Drowned Man (2015)
  • Yannis Zafiris: Rhizome (2015)
  • Ion Indolean: Discordia (2016)
  • Nasos Karabelas: Osmosis (2016)
  • Cristina Hanes: Antonio and Catarina (2017)

Middle Eastern cinema





  • Michael Pilz:
    • Feldberg (1990)
    • Rose and Jasmine (2011)
  • Fate (1994)
  • Frost (1997)
  • Nightfall (1999)
  • Fallen (2005)
  • Sarajevo Songs of Woe (2006)


Iberia




  • Teresa Villaverde: Trance (2006)
  • Pedro Aguilera:
  • Christophe Farnarier: A Dream (2008)
  • Daniel V. Villamediana: The Life Sublime (2010)
  • José María de Orbe: Father (2010)
  • Lluís Galter: Caracremada (2010)
  • Sergio Caballero:
    • Finisterrae (2010)
    • The Distance (2014)
  • João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues: Red Dawn (2011)
  • André Gil Mata:
    • Cativeiro (2012)
    • The Tree (2018)
  • Daniel Sousa: Feral (2012)
  • Eloy Enciso: Arraianos (2012)
  • Alberto Gracia: The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser (2013)
  • João Vladimiro: Lacrau (2013)
  • Lois Patiño:
    • Mountain in Shadow (2012)
    • Coast of Death (2013)
    • Fajr (2017)
    • Red Moon Tide (2020)
  • Carlos Pereira: Ghost Stories (2014)
  • Júlio Bressane:
    • Kid (2015)
    • Beduino (2016)
  • Mark John Ostrowski: Sixty Spanish Cigarettes (2015)
  • Mauro Herce: Dead Slow Ahead (2015)
  • Sandro Aguilar: Bunker (2015)
  • Jorge Suárez-Quinones Rivas: Amijima (2016)
  • Pedro Peralta:
    • Ascension (2016)
    • Perpetual Night (2020)
  • Salomé Lamas: Eldorado XXI (2016)
  • Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado: Plus Ultra (2017)
  • João Salaviza:
    • High Cities of Bone (2017)
    • with Ricardo Alves Júnior: Russa (2018)
  • Manuel Muñoz Rivas: The Sea Stares at Us from Afar (2017)
  • Fernando José Pereira: The Laboratory (2018)
  • Carlos Casas: Cemetery (2019)
  • Alvaro Guerra: Ancient Soul (2021)




  • Kanji Nakajima:
    • Fe (1994)
    • The Box (2003)
    • The Clone Returns Home (2008)



Nordic and Baltic cinema



  • Deimantas Narkevičius: Countryman (2002)
  • Henrik Hellstrom, Fredrik Wenzel: Burrowing (2009)
  • Nicolas Winding Refn:
  • Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen: Steam of Life (2010)
  • John Skoog: Late on Earth (2011)
  • Paul Tunge: Kano (2011)
  • Anders Elsrud Hultgreen:
    • The Pyramidical Silence (2012)
    • Dawn (2014)
    • The Perpetual Progeny (2015)
  • Anton Petersen: The Ballad (2014)
  • Laila Pakalniņa:
    • Dawn (2015)
    • Spoon (2019)
  • Sebastian Eklund:
    • The Blind Waltz (2015)
    • The Tide Brings the Birds Underwater (2017)
  • Sebatian Cordes: A Place Calles Lloyd (2015)
  • Martynas Kundrotas: Wanderer (2016)
  • Edvin Eriksson: Unspoken Thoughts (2017)
  • Jens Assur: Ravens (2017)
  • Ruslan Korostenskiy: Velvet Sky (2017)
  • Patrik Söderlund: Realms (2018)
  • Kaspar Peters: Nordic Grammar (2019)
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson: Last and First Men (2020)
  • 11 x 14 (1977)
  • One Way Boogie Woogie (1977)
  • Landscape Suicide (1987)
  • Used Innocence (1989)
  • North on Evers (1992)
  • Deseret (1995)
  • Four Corners (1997)
  • Los (2001)
  • 13 Lakes (2004)
  • Ten Skies (2004)
  • RR (2007)
  • Ruhr (2009)
  • Pig Iron (2010)
  • Twenty Cigarettes (2011)
  • Easy Rider (2012)
  • Small Roads (2012)
  • Stemple Pass (2013)
  • Natural History (2014)
  • Measuring Change (2016)
  • Spring Equinox (2016)


  • New York Portrait, Chapter I (1979)
  • New York Portrait, Chapter II (1981)
  • Landscape (for Manon) (1987)
  • New York Portrait, Chapter III (1990)
  • In Titan's Goblet (1991)
  • Study of a River (1997)
  • Skagafjördur (2004)
  • At Sea (2007)
  • Three Landscapes (2013)


  • The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983)
  • Magdalena Viraga (1986)
  • Queen of Diamonds (1991)
  • The Bloody Child (1996)
  • Phantom Love (2007)
  • Dissolution (2010)


  • Goshogaoka (1997)
  • Pine Flat (2005)
  • Lunch Break (2008)
  • Double Tide (2009)




  • Black and White Trypps Number Three (2007)
  • Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
  • Trypps #7 (Badlands) (2010)
  • with Jim Drain: Ponce de León (2012)
  • Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (2013)
  • Atlantis (2014)
  • Good Luck (2017)


South and Southeast Asia



  • A Short Film about the Indio Nacional (or The Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos) (2005)
  • Autohystoria (2007)
  • Now Showing (2008)
  • Independencia (2009)
  • How to Disappear Completely (2013)








  • Oxhide (2005)
  • Oxhide II (2009)
  • 607 (2010)


Latin America







Anthologies