What Is Slow Cinema? | Video Essay

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A list of contemporary slow cinema films I've been curating: letterboxd.com/fr_qr/list/a-c...
A great blog on slow cinema: theartsofslowcinema.com/
Apichatpong’s Weerasethakul’s Website, filled with interviews: www.kickthemachine.com/
Curmudgeon Media channel: / @curmudgeonmedia
ONLINE SOURCES:
Michel Ciment (2003), "The State of Cinema" Speech at the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival: unspokencinema.blogspot.com/2...
Nick James (2010), "Passive Aggressive" in Sight & Sound 20, no. 4 & Harry Tuttle (2010), "Slow Films, Easy Life": unspokencinema.blogspot.com/2...
Tsai Ming Liang’s BFI London Film Festival Screen Talk: • TSAI MING-LIANG Screen...
SOME BOOKS ON SLOW CINEMA:
Song Hwee Lim. Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness, Hawai'i University Press (2014)
Ira Jaffe, Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action. Wallflower, 2014
Lutz Kopenick. On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetics of the Contemporary. Columbia University Press, 2014
Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge, eds., Slow Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2016
[Print article] Tiago de Luca. “Slow Time, Visible Cinema: Duration, Experience and Spectatorship.” In Cinema Journal 56, no. 1 (Fall 2016)
Emre Çaglayan. Poetics of Slow Cinema: Nostalgia, Absurdism, Boredom. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Пікірлер: 23

@CurmudgeonMedia 3 жыл бұрын

I love slow cinema. I love it because it's exactly what you describe: a bodily experience. It's also spatial. I love it because it gives me an opportunity to fixate on meaningless minutiae in a totally relaxed setting. I achieved a similar feeling from this video--beautifully written and presented, absorbing and relaxing - Tom xx

@neilugaddan 21 күн бұрын

When I hear slow cinema I see Lee Kang-sheng’s face.

@kekoasylva5544 3 жыл бұрын

This was a very good essay, I added some of the directors films you mentioned, slow cinema if that’s the name or not is truly digital art

@tyrusquiroz8810 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, could you perhaps provide a small list of films which could serve as a nice introduction to slow cinema?

@shubhra1roy 3 жыл бұрын

Love this. Please make more.

@tianhxu 3 жыл бұрын

Love this, very well made, wouldn’t mind seeing more 😆

@juanorellana5128 3 жыл бұрын

Great and informative content, thanks for sharing all this film knowledge! I'll sure check out your other content, keep it going

@agathaangelicawiggers8911 2 жыл бұрын

Just found out your channel and im in love with the content 😭💖im also a cinema student and your repertoire surely is going to help me a lot!! Thanks for the work!!

@denvorsden7903 2 жыл бұрын

Loved your video.

@tommycool 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, thank you!

@BekaSukhitashvili 3 жыл бұрын

"A movie itself is a journey. It drives us towards different dramatic points. Along the way to the points are fillers that function like mini-destinations. The more seamless a filmmaker fills the path and makes the audience forget about time, the closer he or she is to the ‘art’ of filmmaking. At the core, the costumer, the make-up artist, the boom man, the lighting team, the editor, the musician, and so on, all work hard to propel the audience to the destinations." - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

@harshiths8363 3 жыл бұрын

Here from Letterboxd. This must be the long awaited video you were talking about.

@maranmorsi884 2 жыл бұрын

Video davvero ben scritto e montato. Il cinema lento è l'essenza del cinema per me. Unico neo: la tua voce è molto sussiegosa e l'accento terribilmente snervante! Ovviamente non sono nessuno per criticare, ma prendila come una percezione soggettiva volta alla costruttività. Libero di realizzare i tuoi saggi come preferisci, naturalmente! Se l'effetto era voluto, mi taccio. Iscritto, spero di vedere altro!

@alirezamedia7640

Thank you

@thehungnguyen2186 2 жыл бұрын

I followed your Letterboxd for a while but I didn't know you have a KZfaq channel. Great job, Frank!

@miaparnall9905 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing work Francesco!!

@tarasopanasiuk6164 2 жыл бұрын

Love this essay and have it in 'bookmarks' to get back to. Thanks a lot for putting it in, this is my guide to slow cinema and I go back to it to recap some things and to look for movies/directors to watch :)