#film-education

#film-education

The semi-official genre of slow cinema has been around for decades: glacial pacing, unhurried and unbroken takes, static shooting positions, characters who appear to be looking often wordlessly and unsmilingly at people or things off camera or into the lens itself, mimicking the camera's own calmly relentless gaze, the immobile silence accumulating into a transcendental simplicity. Robert Bresson, Theo Angelopoulos, Joe Weerasethakul, Lav Diaz, Lisandro Alonso; these are all great slow cinema practitioners.

I don't think we'll ever reach freedom. I think that it's a thing we sometimes get closer to, and sometimes we move further away from. Some people believe that freedom is an individual matter. And they may have a lived context that allows them to believe that they are free. But something always happens that makes it clear that we are never completely free; we have moments of freedom. Freedom is a desire. Achieving it requires us to move towards it.