> Someone said "'slowness' needs thinking out." For a film festival, I'm not
> sure that it does. I think a whole range of films that may or may not be
> considered 'slow' should play at said festival - and the spectators can
> decide which is the 'best' slow film or the 'slowest' film - and
> participating debaters might use this variety of films to come up with
> a/several 'theory/ies of slow' - rather than having it determined in advance
> for them...
on the other side of town there could be a festival of 'thrillers'
along the same lines, with spectators arguing the toss over what is
and isn't 'thrilling'...
On 7/19/07, William Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Someone said "'slowness' needs thinking out." For a film festival, I'm not
> sure that it does. I think a whole range of films that may or may not be
> considered 'slow' should play at said festival - and the spectators can
> decide which is the 'best' slow film or the 'slowest' film - and
> participating debaters might use this variety of films to come up with
> a/several 'theory/ies of slow' - rather than having it determined in advance
> for them...
>
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