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Ó 2012 Lav Diaz ‘*Florentina Hubaldo CTE’ *
Call for papers
*Slow Cinema* is a one-day-symposium at UCL, which brings together *academics,
filmmakers, curators and critics* and is held at the Institute of
Archaeology, Department of Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies, 31-34
Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY on *Friday 22 April 2016 9.30-18.00*.
“It’s not slow cinema, it’s cinema,” insists Filipino independent film
director Lav Diaz following the screening of his eight-hour film at the
Berlinale in January 2016: “It’s cinema, it’s just like poetry, just like
music, just like painting where it’s free, whether it’s a small canvas or
it’s a big canvas, it’s the same. Cinema shouldn’t be imposed on.”
‘Slow Cinema’ is a controversial term and refers to a variety of phenomena
in filmmaking: long takes, long films, emphasis on landscape and
architecture, excess of time, and a wide-ranging use of soundscapes.
Filmmakers
such as Jacques Rivette, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Béla Tarr, Lav Diaz,
Chantal Akerman, Pedro Costa, or James Benning have experimented with
representations of time and silence. Equally, ethnographic films,
observational documentary and experimental art films employ typical
elements of slow cinema: long takes, the absence of a linear narrative or
voiceover to pay homage to their subjects. Sukhdev Sandhu wrote in the*
Guardian* in 2012: “Its techniques of dissolves, cutting and montage
mirrored the rhythms – at once alienating and exhilarating – of modern
life”.
In this symposium we will discuss films and writings on the subject from
both academic and practitioners’ perspectives. We encourage our speakers
to divert from traditional presentations and include performance,
photography, or the use of soundscapes for their papers. The presentations
will last 20 minutes including discussion.
Please send a paper title and up to 250 word abstract to Barbara Knorpp
(Anthropologist, UCL) [log in to unmask] and Claire Loussouarn
(Anthropologist and Filmmaker, Goldsmiths) [log in to unmask] by
Tuesday, *29th March 2016*.
Thank you.
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