The new year starts of nicely for Slow Cinema. The International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Glasgow Film Festival have a range of slow films on offer. If you are around those locations, it’s worth checking their schedules. Here’s a brief overview:
IFFR
Costa da Morte (Coast of Death) – dir Lois Patiño, Spain*
28 – dir Prasanna Jayakody, Sri Lanka*
Another Hungary – dir Dénes Nagy, Hungary*
De chair et de lait – dir Bernard Bloch, France*
Japón – dir Carlos Reygadas, Mexico
Letters from the South (omnibus) – section dir by Tsai Ming-liang
Norte, The End of History – dir Lav Diaz, Philippines
Prologue to the Great Desaparecido – dir Lav Diaz, Philippines
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness – dir Ben River, Ben Russell, France/Estonia
Story of my Death – dir Albert Serra, Spain
‘Til Madness Do Us Part – dir Wang Bing, Hongkong*
Slow Cinema
GFF
Harmony Lessons – dir Emir Baigazin, Kazakhstan*
Norte, The End of History – dir Lav Diaz, Philippines
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness – dir Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, France/Estonia
The IFFR has started yesterday. The Glasgow Film Festival will run from 20 February 2014 – 2 March 2014. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow.
Films marked with an * are suspected slow films. It sounds as if they would be slow, but I can only really tell once I see them. And this won’t be soon as I’m unfortunately not living near Rotterdam, and for someone who doesn’t live in Glasgow either, the scheduling is a bit unfortunate. I will catch the films one day, though.