Birha – Ekta Mittal (2018)
I have fallen in love. I have fallen in love with a film, with a filmmaker. I have fallen in love with a hypnotising atmosphere, a weight that is at once heavy and yet marvellous….
The Art(s) of Slow Cinema
Self Portrait: Window in 47km – Zhang Mengqi (2019)
In recent months and years, I have come across quite a substantial number of strong, independent slow films from China. Of course, Wang Bing remains the most visible for us because he is lucky enough…
Father and Sons – Wang Bing (2014)
Over several years, Wang Bing has built up a library of films about migration. We tend to understand migration as a movement of people. It is, in a broad sense, a movement, a change as…
A slow return
I’m sipping on a slowly brewed coffee. At my favourite local café. It’s been three months that I haven’t had a chance to do this. When the confinement started (and even before) that I stopped…
Tarr Béla, I used to be a filmmaker – Jean-Marc Lamoure (2013)
Those who have been with me over the years know how much I admire the work of Béla Tarr. It is not only the films that have impressed me, one after the other, allowing me…
Solitude at the end of the world – Carlos Casas (2006)
Perhaps, there is no better film right at this very moment than Carlos Casas’ Solitude at the end of the world. It’s been ten weeks that I haven’t met people. Ten weeks of confinement at…
Lisandro Alonso – Adrien-Gabriel Bouché (2020)
It’s been six years that Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso released a film. In 2014, he released Jauja, which, when I saw it, I considered as a break from his previous films. Jauja felt like a…
Earth – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2019)
Towards the end of the last decade, a new term made its way into public discourse: the anthropocene. Although this isn’t entirely true. The term has been in use for quite some time, but it…
About Endlessness – Roy Andersson (2019)
I’m unsure as to whether I could name a single living director, who speaks to me in a way Roy Andersson does at the moment. His films are absurd, they are morbid at times, funny…
The Art(s) of Slow Cinema Issue 02
Ca y est, it’s time! The new issue of The Art(s) of Slow Cinema magazine is finally available! It’s taken longer than I had thought. I had issues with my design software, which no longer…