#Slow Cinema

[gael-garcia]

Abiding Nowhere (2024), dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[filmescapism]

⋆˚｡ ⋆Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) dir. Tsai Ming-liang⋆˚｡ ⋆

[luvinaeverdene]

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Directed by Chantal Akerman

[jafar-panahi]

Viet and Nam (2024 🇻🇳), directed by Truong Minh Quy

[quatrenuitsdunreveur]

Werckmeister harmóniák / Les Harmonies Werckmeister (dir. Béla Tarr, 2000)

[lostinmac]

Mimang (2023)

Dir. Kim Tae-yang

[fuddlyduddly]

The Shimmering Screen: Jane Schoenbrun’s transient aesthetic

[madamvoila]

late night lily chou chou

[gael-garcia]

Tsai Ming-Liang on slow cinema:

The world might be speeding up, but he still champions slow cinema.

“It’s not about the pace, it’s about the content. My latest ‘Walker’ was shown in Vienna last week and you would think the audience would just fall asleep. They stayed very focused! A slow film creates a lot of possibilities,” he argues.

“I also have a more personal experience of looking at something for a very long time. It was when my mother passed away. I kept looking at her face for hours. All the time, until she was gone. It was beautiful.”

He believes the younger generation can appreciate slower films, he says. Ironically enough, they might just need more time.

“I was once invited to deliver a lecture. It was very early in the morning, so the students were restless. They were not focused at all. They were putting on makeup, eating. Afterwards, this old gentleman who was a professor there came to talk to me. He said: ‘Don’t worry. One day, when they are older, they will watch your films.’ I don’t know if it’s true, but all these new things are filling up their lives now. When they’ll get tired of them, I’ll be waiting.”

[thatcinemascreencapguy]

Barren Illusion (1999) directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

[icollectimages]

Mirror (1975) (Zerkalo)

Country: Soviet Union

Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky

Cinematography by: Georgi Rerberg

[to-be-loved-by-death]

her job is beach

[randomrichards]

DISTANT (2002):

A frozen city

Reclusive photographer

Cousin moves in

[fuddlyduddly]

"...Weard’s most remarkable accomplishment is rendering this all compulsively, ineffably watchable. If you kept this structurally identical - removing only redundancies, a half-second here or a line of dialogue there - you could probably cut this down by about 40 minutes. But if you did that it would feel twice as long."

Collected Notes 02.27 - Sam Bodrojan - on Castration Movie 2024

[haven-anyone-would-yearn-for]

i've seen a few ppl say Skinamarink shouldn't be feature length, that it should be shorter, and i wholly disagree. i think the drawn out tension was very necessary. the pacing is glacial, yes. it's supposed to be. i think i've always been a fan of what is apparently called 'slow cinema' which is what this is. it reminds me of those still shots in Neon Genesis Evangelion, which i also loved and most other ppl apparently disliked.