NONVERBAL / DIALOGUE-FREE FILMAKING

By: Ivan_F

very economical use of dialogue, dialogue is present but ultimately unimportant or no dialogue at all.

Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan:
[ … ] “I need spectators to participate in the film, to finish it,” he stated, an enthusiastic twinkle in his eye. “Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. I use direct sound, mono not stereo. Just direct sound, so for every shot there are only two sources. Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.” [ … ]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-badt/outside-satan-bruno-dumont_b_1102680.html

• 01
  Film
  Alan Schneider
• 02
  We
  Artavazd Peleshian
• 03
  Inhabitants
  Artavazd Peleshian
• 04
  A Song of Love
  Jean Genet
• 05
  The Blue Planet
  Franco Piavoli
• 06
  The Co(te)lette Film
  Mike Figgis
• 07
  Mother and Son
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 08
  The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr
• 09
  The Hole
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 10
  Nothing Personal
  Urszula Antoniak
• 11
  Code Blue
  Urszula Antoniak
• 12
  Outside Satan
  Bruno Dumont
• 13
  Le quattro volte
  Michelangelo Frammartino
• 14
  The Gift
  Michelangelo Frammartino
• 15
  The Triplets of Belleville
  Sylvain Chomet
• 16
  The Illusionist
  Sylvain Chomet
• 17
  Electroma
  Thomas Bangalter
• 18
  Sleeping Betty
  Claude Cloutier
• 19
  Begotten
  E. Elias Merhige
• 20
  Broken Sky
  Julián Hernández
• 21
  PlayTime
  Jacques Tati
• 22
  3-Iron
  Kim Ki-duk
• 23
  Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
  Kim Ki-duk
• 24
  Themroc
  Claude Faraldo
• 25
  In the Woods
  Angelos Frantzis
• 26
  Lodela
  Philippe Baylaucq
• 27
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 28
  Las acacias
  Pablo Giorgelli
• 29
  Amer
  Hélène Cattet