No, I do not undertake a heroic attempt of defining it. Slow Cinema is based on too many relative factors that, in fact, defy a definition. More fundamentally, though, I ask myself whether or not we actually speak about the right thing. More to the point, are we really speaking about film here?

Yesterday, I spoke of an academic standstill, expressed by a kind of "negative growth" of output. Neither film critics nor film academics appear to demonstrate a drive for groundbreaking research. I've often wondered why this was the case and while I'm happy to . . .

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