Slow cinema
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Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema film-making that emphasizes long takes, and is often minimalist, observational, and with little or no narrative. It is sometimes called "contemplative cinema". Examples include Ben Rivers' Two Years at Sea, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte, and Shaun Wilson's film 51 Paintings.
History
Progenitors of the genre include Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, František Vláčil, Pier Paolo Pasolini, G. Aravindan, Aleksandr Sokurov, Béla Tarr, Chantal Akerman, Theo Angelopoulos, Abbas Kiarostami and Franco Piavoli. Tarkovsky argued that "I think that what a person normally goes to cinema for is time".
Greek director Theo Angelopoulos has been described as an "icon of the so-called Slow Cinema movement".
Recent underground film movements such as Remodernist film share the sensibility of slow or contemplative cinema. Examples include The Turin Horse by Béla Tarr, Horse Money by Pedro Costa, the works of Fred Kelemen and The Earth Still Moves by Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez.
G. Aravindan was a filmmaker whose works such as Kanchana Sita, Thampu and Esthappan have been regarded as embodying a uniquely original style of contemplative cinema where the aesthetic sensibility and philosophical insights of Indian culture could find a meditative mode of expression within more universal contexts of humanism and transcendentalism.
The AV Festival held a Slow Cinema Weekend at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle, UK in March 2012, including the films of Rivers, Lav Diaz, Lisandro Alonso and Fred Kelemen.
Recent examples also include films by Kelly Reichardt, Bruno Dumont, Albert Serra, Lech Majewski, Benedek Fliegauf, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-Liang, Lav Diaz, Sergei Loznitsa, Carlos Reygadas, Amat Escalante, Nicolas Pereda, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Sharunas Bartas and Pedro Costa.
Notable slow films
- A Man Escaped (1956)
- Pickpocket (1959)
- L'Eclisse (1962)
- Red Desert (1964)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
- Mouchette (1967)
- Marketa Lazarová (1967)
- The Valley of the Bees (1968)
- Solaris (1972)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
- Mirror (1975)
- Stalker (1979)
- The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
- Sátántangó (1994)
- The House (1997)
- Taste of Cherry (1997)
- Eternity and a Day (1998)
- In Vanda's Room (2000)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
- Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003)
- Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
- Man Push Cart (2005)
- Colossal Youth (2006)
- Heremias (2006)
- Syndromes and a Century (2006)
- Wendy and Lucy (2008)
- Alamar (2009)
- Police, Adjective (2009)
- Putty Hill (2010)
- Somewhere (2010)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
- The Turin Horse (2011)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011)
- Museum Hours (2012)
- Neighboring Sounds (2012)
- Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
- Norte, the End of History (2013)
- Stray Dogs (2013)
- Court (2014)
- Horse Money (2014)
- Cemetery of Splendour (2015)
- Manakamana (2015)
- Sleep Has Her House (2017)
- Roma (2018)
- An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
- First Cow (2019)
- The Disciple (2020)
- Days (2020)
- Memoria (2021)
- Drive My Car (2021)
See also
- Dogme 95
- List of longest films
- Slow food and the Slow movement
- Art film
- Slow television
- Structural film
- Extreme cinema
- Still image film
- Non-narrative film
- Experimental film
- Shutter speed
- American Eccentric Cinema
- Minimalist film
- Modernist film
- Postmodernist film
