Violence and Aesthetics of Awe - SLABOSHPYTSKYI’S The Tribe (Ursula M. Grisham)

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“Rejecting ‘slow’ as disparaging, Harry Tuttle’s Unspoken Cinema proposes ‘contemporary contemplative cinema.’ Comprised of thirty-four single-take tracking shots in a 126-minute running time, The Tribe employs the contemplative, durational aesthetics commonly associated with slow cinema. Slow cinema circulates within a specific cultural and economic sphere enabled by international film festivals, where its long takes and resistance to conventional narrative foster heightened spectatorial awareness. Rather than passively absorbing story, the viewer is drawn into a realm where reality appears in excess of signification, approaching but never fully yielding meaning. This sustained distance invites an ethical gaze, compelling spectators to look, to regard, and to take care of what they see.”

Ursula M. Grisham ; Violence and Aesthetics of Awe -- Looking at Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi's The Tribe ; 2018 / UK