Just last week I read Jakob Boer's interesting paper "As Slow As Possible: An Enquiry Into the Redeeming Power of Boredom for Slow Film Viewers" (2015). I'm partly immensely grateful for this paper. I've lamented for a while that Slow Cinema scholarship is running in circles and there's very little new material that comes out of it. We're still discussing mainly the subjective issue of (slow) time and its roots in Neorealism, which isn't exactly true. Based on Matthew Flanagan's PhD thesis, Boer, too, refers to these roots.

His paper is an investigation . . .

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