Slow cinema

Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema film-making that emphasizes long takes, and is often minimalist, observational, and with little or no narrative. It is sometimes called "contemplative cinema".

Progenitors of the genre include Andrei Tarkovsky, Chantal Akerman, Béla Tarr, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson and Michelangelo Antonioni. Tarkovsky argued that "I think that what a person normally goes to cinema for is time". Greek director Theo Angelopoulos has been described as an "icon of the so-called Slow Cinema movement". Icons of the Slow Cinema movement are Lav Diaz, Wang Bing, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa and Aleksandr Sokurov. Examples include Ben Rivers' Two Years At Sea, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte, and Shaun Wilson's 51 Paintings.