"slow cinema" being a place instead of a narrative is the best description for two of my favourite films, "Stalker" and Bi Gan's "Long Day's Journey into Night".
glad the algorithm is showing more underappreciated channels like yours, for the amount of research you did for this video, i think you deserve more veiws. Keep grinding and I'm sure you'll make it big one day !
I can see why people find stillness calming, or stillness unnerving, which is why it was an excellent thing to watch during the boring days of the pandemic.
Part of what keeps art alive is the active discussion and production of content around it, in spite of monetary gain. The world needs fresh voices and it fills me with hope- for my generation (gen z), and my own artistic endeavors, to see that you're new to youtube and achieving growth on this video. Please- even if you don't see immense gain, even if you only maintain a small audience, even if you upload inconsistently, what videos like this do go far beyond the entropic mush of online content grinding. Keep loving art, and if you do decide to keep uploading, i'll be here. Much love from denver.
@@rat-op4tmI am often in agreement with the previous 'doomed' comment, but am trying to have hope for your generation. The odds, culture, media etc. seem set against you, but your appreciation of this video is a hopeful sign. Good luck!
I remember being unable to get sleep on a Saturday midnight, I pressed play on a movie called An elephant standing still or something like that, oh man, I didn't know the length or a synopsis, it was SLOW and like FOUR HOURS, I experienced many different states through the movie, at some points being glued, others lost, questioning, mad that was so long, but I ended it. Later it was on my head for weeks.
Slow cinema can be so mesmerizing and terrifying all in the same context. I had to stop watching “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” cause the movie’s stillness and surreal atmosphere made me feel like i was going nuts, despite how tender and ethereal most of it felt
I follow several movie review / analysis channels and this just came up for me. The title intrigued me enough to watch it, I was expecting it to be interesting but there was so much more. Although I have a limited(ish) taste in cinema I often find reviews or analyses of techniques in movies that I haven't seen to be very interesting. Absolutely fantastic video and I hope you do many many more.
I used to love slow cinema before UA-cam and social media. I not able to appreciate it anymore. I barely can watch a short essay like this without skipping. Saddest thing. Lost control of my eyes and brain.
If you enjoyed Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, you should check out Queen of Diamonds by Nina Menkes. She seems very inspired by Chantel Akerman's work, that they are both eerily similar in shots, tone, and outcome. About the everyday lives of women in duty. Nina's version takes place mostly in Nevada, and Las Vegas which is for the title of movie. Great analysis video, I'll be checking these movies out!
I want to believe the video has four or so mins of black screen just to illustrate the points made about time being unstoppable. I did not want this video to end.
Was playing animal crossing while watching this video haha (I guess that defeats the purpose of slow things but oh well). It hit close to my pandemic experience as well, I tried to create routine to keep me sane, and animal crossing definitely helped with that. I love how this video feels "slow" too, from no background music to little editing and simple titlecards. Such a good video.
The Seventh Continent is the only film that I can say destroyed me, I was unable to eat for a day after that and found it impossible to get out of that headspace for days. I find the film making more and more sense almost a decade since I watched it, and am still afraid to go back to it. Haneke is just one of those rare, rare directors that gives off this sense that he and his films know something about humanity that we all also know deep in our unconscious but are too superficial to realize it. His films realize it though, and its like the camera is forcing us to realize those things too by taunting us the way it just stays there and does nothing.
At first I thought you might be misremembering _Andrei Rublev_ because the attack on Vladimir certainly is not "slow" in the sense you're describing... maybe. In retrospect, that extraordinarily violent sequence is so extreme that it's almost impossible to process, and its sense of time is disrupted by the intercutting with the two brother's failed "reconciliation" and halted in the end by Rublev's conversation in the ruined cathedral with the ghost of Theophanes. It's chronology is that of nightmare rather than of narrative. Of course, "The Bell" is hardly conventional even if it is nominally realistic. I'm glad you included some of most jaw-dropping shots of the casting (how can molten metal look so hot in black and white?) and hope they lead more people to watch the film. I showed _Andrei Rublev_ to students in a medieval history class who likely had never seen a film in another language, much less one like this. They were engrossed for the entire length and a little shaken up at the end of it. I still think it may be the best movie yet made. (I also showed them _La passion de Jeanne d'Arc_ and, just to prove that I'm not a completely dour person, _The Court Jester_ in the same class.)
Just subscribed. Looking forward to your future uploads. You have a wonderful speaking voice. I appreciate the work you put into writing and delivering your commentary as well as your meticulous editing.
Great video essay, i normally cant stand slow cinema there just something with the lack of narritve or slow pacing or no plot points that drive me insane. I always wait for something anything to happen and skip to that part. Rather then the movie being calming they are unsettling to me. That is why my favorite slow movie is shoah.
It’s not for everybody, for sure. I find myself, a person who made an hour long video essay devoted to slow cinema, sometimes having to push hard to finish some of them.
I find it funny how I both understand this video in terms of games but I don’t understand this with film, I guess I need simulation that sometimes art or simply existing, I’m constantly listing to music or watching a video where someone talks about things I may or may not care about, it’s interesting to listen to another perspective and learn about something I’ve never really thought about
I still find myself getting impatient with some examples of slow cinema. It taxes you in ways you’re not used to. It reminds me of the first time I read Swann’s Way by Proust or first listened to the ambient tracks of Brian Eno. We are so used to the narrative schema of movies that when a movie goes against it, there’s very little there for our minds to hold on to without other schematic contexts. I have no problem admitting that films in this style sometimes bore me or even make me upset with their apathy toward audience engagement.
I like it! never knew there is a genre called slow cinema, and I happens to find out some of my favorite movies are actually in this category, while some others don't. Recently I'm interested to make a Tarkvosky video, and this video helps me and gives plenty of inspirations.
The music video to Mapper by Infinity Shred reminds me of 2001 in a couple shots, though its story bits start right at the beginning before things take a very different turn. It's easily my favorite music video ever.
When I saw this title, not knowing what slow cinema is, the first film that came to mind was the recent "Skinamarink". It certainly polarized viewers like me who were ignorant of this style of film. I've never successfully watched 2001 from start to finish. I've tried 3 times and fell asleep each time.
@31:09 The distractions you're talking about I think of all the time when watching any film. I ask this a lot,(even myself) when was the last time i watched a film without ever looking at my phone?
Ya, I posted this question I had about when the last time you watched a film in full without your phone on a filmmaker forum. And I only got one reply and it was something like "We're done with the shots like watching a guy brush his teeth or and exposition. We just want the action." And it me, they want porn. Fast and The Furious 27, the latest Batman film because the others didn't cut it? Just more tard shit. I mean, I just watched Roy Andersson's About Endlessness the other day. I found it fascinating. But none of these knobs are going to try for a film like this. It's sad if anything.
Fantastic essay. One of very few that I don't think would be fair to criticize. It is far more than an essay on a cinematic genre. It is a commentary on experiencing day-to-day life. I wish people like Zizek, Sean Carroll, Donald Hoffman, and other nut cases would watch it and stop talking about all that is irrelevant to here and now.
Great video. Never heard of slow cinema before. Pretty cool. Also definitely subjective taste lol. Enjoyed the animal crossing element here too, ties into the themes of your essay well. The Austrian/German family being based on a real family found dead among all their dead possessions, reminds me of another fucked up story about a family who all killed each other in an apparent suicide pact after the daughter went insane it seems. Really creepy videos out there of her. Something was definitely wrong.
@@creativedestructionvideo all the information you tried to convey was still clearly communicated and the point of the video still shines through. amazing video man! i hope you continue making things in this style because you have a real talent in it!
"slow cinema" being a place instead of a narrative is the best description for two of my favourite films, "Stalker" and Bi Gan's "Long Day's Journey into Night".
glad the algorithm is showing more underappreciated channels like yours, for the amount of research you did for this video, i think you deserve more veiws. Keep grinding and I'm sure you'll make it big one day !
Thank you for the kind words! New videos are in different stages of development, but some more film topics are on their way in the coming weeks.
I can see why people find stillness calming, or stillness unnerving, which is why it was an excellent thing to watch during the boring days of the pandemic.
Part of what keeps art alive is the active discussion and production of content around it, in spite of monetary gain.
The world needs fresh voices and it fills me with hope- for my generation (gen z), and my own artistic endeavors, to see that you're new to youtube and achieving growth on this video.
Please- even if you don't see immense gain, even if you only maintain a small audience, even if you upload inconsistently, what videos like this do go far beyond the entropic mush of online content grinding.
Keep loving art, and if you do decide to keep uploading, i'll be here. Much love from denver.
Gen z is doomed
@@assadsmagicalmysterytournothing new under the sun
@@assadsmagicalmysterytour I disagree. I think we'll be ok
@@rat-op4tmI am often in agreement with the previous 'doomed' comment, but am trying to have hope for your generation. The odds, culture, media etc. seem set against you, but your appreciation of this video is a hopeful sign.
Good luck!
I remember being unable to get sleep on a Saturday midnight, I pressed play on a movie called An elephant standing still or something like that, oh man, I didn't know the length or a synopsis, it was SLOW and like FOUR HOURS, I experienced many different states through the movie, at some points being glued, others lost, questioning, mad that was so long, but I ended it. Later it was on my head for weeks.
This is a great debut video. Great work and im excited to see more
Thank you!
The beginning of this video made me cry and I don't know why.
This video made my day.
Thanks
A new fantastic essayist just appear from nowhere ! Happy do be here on the beginning
Beauty. Love to see something about Bela Tarr if you’re gonna make more videos about slow cinema!
Slow cinema can be so mesmerizing and terrifying all in the same context. I had to stop watching “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” cause the movie’s stillness and surreal atmosphere made me feel like i was going nuts, despite how tender and ethereal most of it felt
I follow several movie review / analysis channels and this just came up for me. The title intrigued me enough to watch it, I was expecting it to be interesting but there was so much more. Although I have a limited(ish) taste in cinema I often find reviews or analyses of techniques in movies that I haven't seen to be very interesting. Absolutely fantastic video and I hope you do many many more.
Thank you!
This is a doozy of a first video. Great job
Thank you!
I used to love slow cinema before UA-cam and social media. I not able to appreciate it anymore. I barely can watch a short essay like this without skipping. Saddest thing. Lost control of my eyes and brain.
If you enjoyed Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, you should check out Queen of Diamonds by Nina Menkes. She seems very inspired by Chantel Akerman's work, that they are both eerily similar in shots, tone, and outcome. About the everyday lives of women in duty. Nina's version takes place mostly in Nevada, and Las Vegas which is for the title of movie.
Great analysis video, I'll be checking these movies out!
I haven’t seen that one. Thank you for the rec!
That's an instant sub, hooked from the start with this vid. Well done!
You have no business making this good content but here we are.
That’s extremely kind of you to say. Thank you
I want to believe the video has four or so mins of black screen just to illustrate the points made about time being unstoppable. I did not want this video to end.
I thought it would be a fun Easter egg. Thank you!
Ironically enough, I am playing this on my second monitor as I play games in my own flow state. Excellent video, keep up the good work. Don't give up.
Thank you!
Impressive inaugural launch. Congratulations 👏
Thank you!
Damn, that's some underapreciated quality content.
Much love from Brazil!❤
Thank you! I appreciate you
Thanks for the deep dive on these films! Looking forward to seeing more from you
Was playing animal crossing while watching this video haha (I guess that defeats the purpose of slow things but oh well). It hit close to my pandemic experience as well, I tried to create routine to keep me sane, and animal crossing definitely helped with that.
I love how this video feels "slow" too, from no background music to little editing and simple titlecards. Such a good video.
Thank you!
The Seventh Continent is the only film that I can say destroyed me, I was unable to eat for a day after that and found it impossible to get out of that headspace for days. I find the film making more and more sense almost a decade since I watched it, and am still afraid to go back to it.
Haneke is just one of those rare, rare directors that gives off this sense that he and his films know something about humanity that we all also know deep in our unconscious but are too superficial to realize it. His films realize it though, and its like the camera is forcing us to realize those things too by taunting us the way it just stays there and does nothing.
One of my favorite directors, and also one of the most confrontational.
Looking forward to the next video 🤗
This is pretty great. Solid research and very calming, thanks for this
Absolutely first-class presentation. Allowing us to actually experience what he is breaking down for us rather than bombarding us with information.
I love you and can’t thank you enough for putting into words many of my thoughts watching these movies.
Thank you!
HEY this was awesome, super good and well presented thoughts
I look forward to whatever else you make
Thank you so much for the kind words
Eyyo, a new 🔥 Essayist just dropped! 🙌🏽 This video is so inspiring in narrative, delivery, and technique. 💫
Thank you for the kind words!
Wasn’t expecting to find this today. Glad I did.
great video! hope to see more coming :) great take on rublev
Thank you!
Fantastic work, Cameron.
Thank you!
At first I thought you might be misremembering _Andrei Rublev_ because the attack on Vladimir certainly is not "slow" in the sense you're describing... maybe. In retrospect, that extraordinarily violent sequence is so extreme that it's almost impossible to process, and its sense of time is disrupted by the intercutting with the two brother's failed "reconciliation" and halted in the end by Rublev's conversation in the ruined cathedral with the ghost of Theophanes. It's chronology is that of nightmare rather than of narrative. Of course, "The Bell" is hardly conventional even if it is nominally realistic. I'm glad you included some of most jaw-dropping shots of the casting (how can molten metal look so hot in black and white?) and hope they lead more people to watch the film.
I showed _Andrei Rublev_ to students in a medieval history class who likely had never seen a film in another language, much less one like this. They were engrossed for the entire length and a little shaken up at the end of it. I still think it may be the best movie yet made. (I also showed them _La passion de Jeanne d'Arc_ and, just to prove that I'm not a completely dour person, _The Court Jester_ in the same class.)
I wish I could have taken that class. That sounds fantastic
Just subscribed. Looking forward to your future uploads. You have a wonderful speaking voice. I appreciate the work you put into writing and delivering your commentary as well as your meticulous editing.
Thank you! I really appreciate this encouragement.
I still recover from seeing Der siebente Kontinent.. the ending is so hard to take.
Brilliant.
The film ‘Skinamarink’ is one worth considering for this type of cinema
I watched and enjoyed that one. Might be one of the most widely seen examples of slow cinema right now.
2001. A great example !
Great video essay, i normally cant stand slow cinema there just something with the lack of narritve or slow pacing or no plot points that drive me insane. I always wait for something anything to happen and skip to that part. Rather then the movie being calming they are unsettling to me. That is why my favorite slow movie is shoah.
It’s not for everybody, for sure. I find myself, a person who made an hour long video essay devoted to slow cinema, sometimes having to push hard to finish some of them.
Try playing a 'slow' movie with sound down while listening to your favorite 'slow/calming' music. I do this while working/editing.
I find it funny how I both understand this video in terms of games but I don’t understand this with film, I guess I need simulation that sometimes art or simply existing, I’m constantly listing to music or watching a video where someone talks about things I may or may not care about, it’s interesting to listen to another perspective and learn about something I’ve never really thought about
I still find myself getting impatient with some examples of slow cinema. It taxes you in ways you’re not used to. It reminds me of the first time I read Swann’s Way by Proust or first listened to the ambient tracks of Brian Eno. We are so used to the narrative schema of movies that when a movie goes against it, there’s very little there for our minds to hold on to without other schematic contexts. I have no problem admitting that films in this style sometimes bore me or even make me upset with their apathy toward audience engagement.
Good video essay.❤
excellent essay. many thanks!
It’s like watching a 5 hour long cricket match.
I like it! never knew there is a genre called slow cinema, and I happens to find out some of my favorite movies are actually in this category, while some others don't. Recently I'm interested to make a Tarkvosky video, and this video helps me and gives plenty of inspirations.
Hey nice tough leaving 5 minutes of black at the end of the video. It’s „slow youtube“ ;)
veeery great essay
Starting with a banger. Like Nas with Illmatic ✨
The music video to Mapper by Infinity Shred reminds me of 2001 in a couple shots, though its story bits start right at the beginning before things take a very different turn. It's easily my favorite music video ever.
The Zone of Interest, for example
Loved this
Thank you so much!
i just know all your students sit there entranced not talking during your lectures lol
Haha, I appreciate the vote of confidence, but reality gets in the way.
Great stuff. Thanks
When I saw this title, not knowing what slow cinema is, the first film that came to mind was the recent "Skinamarink". It certainly polarized viewers like me who were ignorant of this style of film. I've never successfully watched 2001 from start to finish. I've tried 3 times and fell asleep each time.
Thought of skinmarink right away when I saw the title as well despite not having seen it myself 😂
This is a nice can of pace of video, I wise I can encounter more long form media.
Anything that is not a modern trend is good.
Ayo good work.
@31:09 The distractions you're talking about I think of all the time when watching any film. I ask this a lot,(even myself) when was the last time i watched a film without ever looking at my phone?
Sometimes I leave my phone in another room just to ensure I won’t unthinkingly look at it
Ya, I posted this question I had about when the last time you watched a film in full without your phone on a filmmaker forum. And I only got one reply and it was something like "We're done with the shots like watching a guy brush his teeth or and exposition. We just want the action." And it me, they want porn. Fast and The Furious 27, the latest Batman film because the others didn't cut it? Just more tard shit. I mean, I just watched Roy Andersson's About Endlessness the other day. I found it fascinating. But none of these knobs are going to try for a film like this. It's sad if anything.
Fuck, quality like this and you're going to grow like a sprout! Great video, thank you for the amazing content :)
Thank you!
36:17
I think that would be a pommel horse, not a hobby horse.
You are absolutely right. My mistake, and good catch!
Fantastic essay. One of very few that I don't think would be fair to criticize. It is far more than an essay on a cinematic genre. It is a commentary on experiencing day-to-day life.
I wish people like Zizek, Sean Carroll, Donald Hoffman, and other nut cases would watch it and stop talking about all that is irrelevant to here and now.
Thank you for the kind words!
watching this made me think of the movie called The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, have you seen it?
I have not, thank you for the recommendation
Great stuff, subbed! Would love to hear your thoughts on Haneke's other films!
Working on a long thing that will include Amour
I really enjoyed this. You're a fellow Ontarian?
Thank you! However, I am not a fellow Ontarian.
Great video. Never heard of slow cinema before. Pretty cool. Also definitely subjective taste lol. Enjoyed the animal crossing element here too, ties into the themes of your essay well.
The Austrian/German family being based on a real family found dead among all their dead possessions, reminds me of another fucked up story about a family who all killed each other in an apparent suicide pact after the daughter went insane it seems. Really creepy videos out there of her. Something was definitely wrong.
Thank you! I need to look into that
Would Satantango be considered slow cinema?
Yes
@@creativedestructionvideo thanks
I was just about to mention that movie. I let it run, sound down while listening to music, while I work during the day.
one movie - satantango
“Jee-Ann Delman”
I know, I know
...are you that good at tetris?
I have an obsessive personality, so kind of.
you should be on the ctwc if you arent already!
pronunciation was atrocious
jesus christ shut up. who cares?
I even practiced and watched pronunciation videos ahead of recording. Not my talent
@@creativedestructionvideo all the information you tried to convey was still clearly communicated and the point of the video still shines through. amazing video man! i hope you continue making things in this style because you have a real talent in it!