The subversive nature of slowness (Kostopoulou)
Latest addition to the Library page on Unspoken Cinema: "Slowness as an alternative cinematic style Slowness in cinema is linked to a certain aesthetic current characterised by stillness, slowness, and silence. What is often seen as a dwelling on the visual and aural qualities of the landscape in a film may, in fact, reflect the cinematic vision, the technical or aesthetic preferences of a given director (deLuca and Barradas Jorge 2016). As Clara orban suggests, 'Like its culinary counterpart, Slow Food, slow cinema has become a way of watching the world go by more slowly, a mindful approach to moving images' (2021, 1). This 'mindful approach' reflects the stylistic and aesthetic preferences of individual directors. How is then the aesthetics of slowness materrialised? Are there any common features that appear in most slow films? In what follows, I will try to examine these features by highlighting how slow cinema is seen as an alternative cinematic practice that ...