1. History

2. Reception

3. See also

4. References

History

Progenitors of the genre include Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Aleksandr Sokurov, Béla Tarr, Chantal Akerman and Theo Angelopoulos.^[3] Tarkovsky argued that "I think that what a person normally goes to cinema for is time".^{[1] [4]}

Greek director Theo Angelopoulos has been described as an "icon of the so-called Slow Cinema movement".^[5]

Recent underground film movements such as Remodernist film share the sensibility of slow or contemplative cinema. Examples include The Turin Horse by Béla Tarr, the works of Fred Kelemen, and Sleep Has Her House by Scott Barley.

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.^[6][7][8][9]

Recent examples also include films by Kelly Reichardt and the late Abbas Kiarostami^[10][11]

Reception

It has been criticized as being indifferent or even hostile to audiences.^[6] A backlash by Sight & Sound's Nick James, and picked up by online writers, argued that early uses of long takes were "adventurous provocations created by extremists" whereas recent films are "operating within a recognized, default artistic idiom."^[12] The Guardian's film blog concluded that "being less overweeningly precious about films that are likely to be impenetrable to even the most well-informed audiences would seem an idea."^[13] Dan Fox of Frieze criticized both the dichotomy of the argument into 'philistine' vs 'pretentious' and the reductiveness of the term "slow cinema".^[14]

Recently, film scholars Katherine Fusco and Nicole Seymour have pointed out that the slow cinema movement has been mischaracterized by both supporters and detractors. As they argue, much "commentary posits slow cinema as a kind of pastoral for the present moment, a respite from our technologically saturated ... Hollywood-blockbuster-centered era."

Such commentary therefore associates the movement with pleasure and relaxation.

But in reality, slow cinema films often focus on down-and-out laborers; as Fusco and Seymour argue, "for those on the fringes of society, modernity is actually experienced as slowness, and usually to their great detriment."^[15]

See also

• Dogme 95
• List of longest films by running time
• Slow food and the Slow movement
• Art film
• Slow television
• Structural film
• Extreme cinema

References

• Agnes Flanagan Chapel
• Agnes Flora
• Agnes Fodor
• Agnes Fong Sock Har
• Agnes Forster
• Agnes Gajdos
• Agnes Gajdos-Hubai
• Agnes Gay
• Agnes Gee
• Agnes Geene
• Agnes Geijer
• Agnes, Georgia
• Agnes Gertrude Regan
• Agnes Griffith
• Agnes Guppy-Volckman
• Agnes Guppy-Volkman
• Agnes Haakonsdotter
• Agnes Hamilton
• Agnes Headlam-Morley
• Agnes Headlam Morley
• Agnes Hedengard
• Agnes Hedengård
• Agnes Henderson
• Agnes Henderson Brown
• Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship