Béla Tarr, the Hungarian art house director whose work, distinguished by long, elaborately choreographed takes, languid pacing and stark black-and-white visuals, shaped a generation of art house filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant, has died. He was 70.

Hungarian filmmaker Bence Fliegauf (Womb) confirmed the news of Tarr’s death to Hungary’s national news agency MTI, speaking on behalf of the Tarr family. In a memoriam to the director, posted on its website Tuesday, the European Film Academy said Tarr died “after a long and serious illness.”

Tarr directed nine feature films during the course of a relatively short career, beginning with Family Nest in 1979 and ending with The Turin Horse in 2011. In his films, he perfected his radical formal style, which prioritizes the direct experience of time, space and atmosphere over conventional narrative storytelling.

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