Ambient films

Angel's Egg is very dark though. If you like dark, you might enjoy Bela Tarr's work.

Some chill, atmospheric stuff that's not unsettling: The Limits of Control, "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring", Ashes and Snow

I would like to know more as well.

  On 12/21/2012 at 12:39 AM, Luke Fucking Hazard said:

Decasia: google image search: Decasia

Wow, that looks awesome.

Valhalla Rising was pretty sparse. Not sure if that counts though.

  On 12/21/2012 at 12:47 AM, Ego said:

...you might enjoy Bela Tarr's work.

This... His latest, The Turin Horse, is one of my favorite films of the year.

Der Lauf Der Dinge

girl with a pearl earring is very ambient. the sound track is excellent too

watmm delivers!

except that cunt, sweepstakes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ertVYn750

Story of the Weeping camel is pretty damn ambient and really well made completely non narrated documentary that seems to unfold in real-time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7_IdGOGaro

I recommend Samsara and Baraka if you havent seen those either

very ambient doc

has aphex in it too!

older black and white movies are really good for ambience, I used to just put on the turner classic movies channel to chill out, bc there are no high range noises, and things are much quieter on average

Oh yeah PONYO, and herzog's nosferatu

Criterion Collection has a lot of quality older and somewhat experimental films that may not even be capable of holding your attention, but are nonetheless intriguing and artful. Many of them are in foreign languages as well.

Hulu and Netflix both have a large amount of Criterion Collection films.

  On 12/21/2012 at 1:49 AM, marf said:

very ambient doc

 

has aphex in it too!

 

nice, gonna check that out, thanks

  On 12/21/2012 at 12:47 AM, Ego said:

Angel's Egg is very dark though. If you like dark, you might enjoy Bela Tarr's work.

 

Some chill, atmospheric stuff that's not unsettling: The Limits of Control, "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring", Ashes and Snow

 

I would like to know more as well.

 

  On 12/21/2012 at 12:39 AM, Luke Fucking Hazard said:

Decasia: google image search: Decasia

 

Wow, that looks awesome.

holy shit that reminds me of some really really fucked up and amazing french art film someone linked here a long long time ago...anyone know what Im talking about? It only had a soundtrack...it was black and white...and I think it involved a woman or bride...and it wasn't Begotten(which is also a great ambient film)

This series is as ambient as it gets. Sunrise Earth. No music, just the sound of being there. Big long 30 second shots of places during sunrise, somewhere on the planet. It used to come on in the morning on Animal Planet.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sunrise-Earth-Seaside-Collection-Blu-ray/1086/

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sunrise-Earth-Alaska-Blu-ray/12343/

i used to dose off to this series a couple years ago. a fav if you are into medieval history and rather ambient. granted, i was doing ambien then.

(actually, watch this version instead of the youtube fire one: http://vimeo.com/39877054 )

Outliers, Vol. 1 (http://www.outliersiceland.com/)

[vimeo]54416021[/vimeo]

Pretty cool soundtrack. Deru, Loscil, Shigeto, Sakamoto...

as i mentioned in the recent films thread, im not a huge fan of ambient films. ambient music is amazing because it provides a rich and engaging background, in a film it demands your entire attention, which i dont think im prepared to give.

on that note, stalker

the most ambient film ive ever seen.

i have the whole tarkovsky collection sitting there, but im not ready to sit and watch them yet i dont think.

i couldnt be arsed reading the thread, but enter the void was an enjoyable ambient film. ive been wanting to project it onto the walls of clubs i dj at but havent got round to finding out the legalities of it yet basically.

  On 12/21/2012 at 3:49 AM, Ego said:

Outliers, Vol. 1 (http://www.outliersiceland.com/)

[vimeo]54416021[/vimeo]

Pretty cool soundtrack. Deru, Loscil, Shigeto, Sakamoto...

awesome

Holy Mountain

Check out the Thai movie Syndromes And A Century. Super beautiful, strange, nonlinear, and slow/ambient. I saw it with 2 friends and we all loved it & fell asleep at different times during the film

  On 12/20/2012 at 11:46 PM, gaarg said:

Koyaanisqatsi

  On 12/21/2012 at 12:47 AM, Ego said:

you might enjoy Bela Tarr's work.

yeah have a look at Satantango (7 hours of ambient right there)

I found Paris, Texas, Rumblefish, and Blade Runner to be pretty ambient

Fischili and Weiss films, Michael Snow's films, Stan Brakhage's films.

I've made this film two years ago that fits solely into this category. Split screen, one side shot in Germany, the other in Shanghai.

No dialogue, just score and image.

Please excuse the crappy youtube compression.