Heimat is a space in time – Thomas Heise (2019)
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to write something that would do justice to Thomas Heise’s Heimat is a space in time (2019). It speaks to me in so many ways, on so many…
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A Yangtze Landscape – Xu Xin (2017)
There are films, which I’m grateful for. Grateful for being able to watch them, grateful for being able to write about them. Grateful for being able to experience them. There are those films that go…
Elsewhere – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2000)
I have one specific sequence in my head, and what it shows and what is said doesn’t get any weaker with time. An elderly tribes man from Indonesia, sitting in his tree house, tells us…
24 Frames – Abbas Kiarostami (2017)
One of the defining characteristics of Slow Cinema is that quite a number of films, in particular experimental films, question the difference between photography and cinema. Static art and moving image art interact and create…
Three Sisters – Wang Bing (2012)
I become more and more a fan of Wang Bing. I’m making my way through his filmography in a random order, which is a shame, because I believe that you can actually see China’s economical…
Sixty Spanish Cigarettes – Mark John Ostrowski (2015, repost)
!!! This film is now available on tao films !!! There is something sublimely beautiful about Mark John Ostrowski’s film Sixty Spanish Cigarettes (2015). Fifteen minutes into the film, an extreme long shot captures the…
Sleep Has Her House – Scott Barley (2017)
!!! This film is now available on tao films till the end of March !!! It took me a long time to decide whether I should be writing about this film. All films available on…
Where are you going? – Zhengfan Yang (2016)
If the film’s title were a question about the direction of the filmmaker, then I would respond to it with “higher and higher”. Where Are You Going? is Zhengfan Yang’s second feature film. His Distant was a…
The Royal Road – Jenni Olson (2014)
How I had missed this fight inside my head of what is slow and what isn’t. Jenni Olson’s deeply personal, moving and engaging film The Royal Road (2014) started those evil voices in my head again….
Manakamana – Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez (2013)
If you’re looking for a very zen film, then I believe that you cannot find many films that are as zen as Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez’ Manakamana (2013). Slow Cinema has often been considered in…