A Long Hard Look at Slow Cinema Studies

Frame grab from Teodors/Theodore (Laila Pakalniņa, Latvia 2006). Read about Pakalniņa's films in the context of "slow cinema"

'Cinema is the art of playing with time.'
(Alain Resnais cited in Freddy Sweet, The Film Narratives of Alain Resnais (Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1981), 5. and in Alex Ling, 'Parentheses in Time: L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (1961) as Amorous Event', Screening the Past, 43, 2012)

Film Studies For Free has been taking its time lately. What better subject for it to tackle then, in its latest entry of links to online scholarly (alongside other, high quality and/or highly relevant) work, than slow cinema studies?

With no further ado, FSFF presents the below list, with many thanks to Girish Shambu for his initial, inspirational link.

• Luis Rocha Antunes, 'The Vestibular in Film: Orientation and Balance in Gus Van Sant's Cinema of Walking', Essays in Philosophy, 13.2, 2012
• Phil Ballard, 'In search of truth: Béla Tarr interviewed', Kinoeye 4.2, 2004
• Yvette Bíró, 'The Fullness of Minimalism', Rouge, 9, 2006
• Natalie Boehler, 'The Jungle as Border Zone: The Aesthetics of Nature in the Work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul', ASEAS-Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 4.2, 2011
• David Bordwell, 'Intensified Continuity: Visual Style in Contemporary American Film', originally in Film Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Spring, 2002), pp. 16-28
• David Bordwell, 'Intensified Continuity Revisited', Observations of Film Art, May 2007
• David Bordwell, 'Unsteadicam Chronicles', Observations on Film Art, August 17, 2007
• Jodi Brooks and Therese Davis, 'Untimely Cinema: Cinema Out of Time', Screening the Past, 34, 2012
• Charlotte Brunsdon, ‘"It's a film": medium specificity as textual gesture in Red Road and The Unloved', Journal of British Cinema and Television, 9(3), 2012
• James Callow, A "Post-Historical' Cinema of Suspense: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Limits of Redemption, PhD thesis, University of Bath, 2010
• Thomas Elsaesser, 'Stop/Motion' in Eivind Røssaak (ed.), Between Stillness and Motion Film, Photography, Algorithms (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011) 
• Matthew Flanagan, 'Slow Cinema': Temporality and Style in Contemporary Art and Experimental Film, PhD thesis, University of Exeter, 2012 Also here
• Matthew Flanagan, 'Towards an Aesthetic of Slow in Contemporary Cinema', 16:9, 2008
• Dan Fox, 'Slow, Fast, and Inbetween', Frieze Magazine Blog, May 23, 2010
• Elena Gorfinkel, 'Global Art Networks: The Case of “Slow” Cinema', Global Currents, 8.1, 2012
• Catherine Grant, 'Voyage to Cinema: Studies of the Work of Theo Angelopoulos', Film Studies For Free, Feburary 2, 2012
• Catherine Grant, 'Bazinian, Neo-Bazinian, and Post-Bazinian Film Studies', Film Studies For Free, May 18, 2010
• Catherine Grant, 'Sculpting the Real: Michelangelo Antonioni Studies in the Centenary Year of his Birth', Film Studies For Free, May 23, 2012
• David Hudson, 'Cannes 2010. Cristi Puiu's "Aurora" + "Slow Cinema Vs Fast Films"', MUBI Notebook, May 15, 2010
• Nick James, 'Syndromes of a new century', Sight and Sound, February 2010
• David Jenkins, 'Theo Angelopoulos: the sweep of history', Sight and Sound, February 2012
• Sarah Keller and Jason N. Paul (eds), Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012)
• Homay King, 'Sign in the Void: Ulrike Ottinger's Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia', Afterall, 16, 2007
• Andrew Klevan, Disclosure of the everyday : the undramatic achievements in narrative film, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996
• Robert Koehler, 'Twilight Zone: Shadows and fog in the in-between world of Théo Court's Ocaso', Moving Image Source, January 11, 2012
• Ed Krčma, 'Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age', Tate Online, October 1, 2010
• James Lattimer, 'Beyond Neo-Neo Realism: Reconfigurations of Neorealist Narration in Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff, Cinephile, 7.2, Fall 2011
• Danny Leigh, 'The view: Is it OK to be a film philistine?', The Guardian Film Blog, May 21, 2010
• Alex Ling, 'Parentheses in Time: L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (1961) as Amorous Event', Screening the Past, 43, 2012
• Tiago de Luca, 'Gus Van Sant’s Gerry and Visionary Realism', Cinephile, 7.2, Fall 2011
• Tiago Magalhães De Luca, Realism of the senses: a tendency in contemporary world cinema. PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2011
• David Martin-Jones, Becoming-other in time: the Deleuzian subject in cinema, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002
• Henry K. Miller, 'Doing time:"slow cinema" at the AV Festival', Sight and Sound, March 2012
• Maria O'Connor, 'An Immense Clip: Film, Philosophy and the Proximate Violence of Becoming', FIlm-Philosophy Conference, 2011
• Maria O'Connor and Amanda Yates, '(Im)materialising Time', Studies in Material Thinking, Vol. 5, 2011
• Līva Pētersone, 'Latvian Documentary Cinema: The New Generation', Selection of Articles on Latvian Films (date unknown)
• Michael Pigott, Time and Film Style, PhD thesis, University of Warwick, 2009
• Effie Rassos, 'Everyday Narratives: Reconsidering Filmic Temporality and Spectatorial Affect Through the Quotidian,' PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales, 2005
• Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes, 'INTERSTITIAL, PRETENTIOUS, ALIENATED, DEAD: Antonioni at 100', in Rascaroli and Rhodes (eds), Antonioni: Centenary Essays (BFI/Palgrave, 2011)
• Vadim Rizov, 'Slow cinema backlash', IFC.com, May 12, 2010
• Eva Karene Romero, Cine en Emergencia: National Identity in Post-dictatorial Audiovisual Production in Paraguay, PhD. thesis, University of Arizona, 2012
• Jonathan Romney, 'Slow war cinema and Bollysploitation', Sight and Sound, May 2012
• Sukhdev Sandhu, '"Slow cinema" fights back against Bourne's supremacy', The Guardian, March 9, 2012
• Karl Schoonover, 'Slowness as Intimacy in Apichatpong’s Mekong Hotel', In Media Res, December 12, 2012
• Steven Shaviro, 'Slow Cinema Vs Fast Films', The Pinocchio Theory, May 12, 2010
• Deborah Shaw, 'Trans)National Images and Cinematic Spaces:the cases of Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también (2001) and Carlos Reygadas’ Japón (2002)', Iberoamericana, XL, 44, 2011
• Justin A. Sully, Cine-Demographies: Population Crisis in Late Twentieth Century Film Culture, PhD thesis, McMaster University, 2009
• Lara Thompson, 'In Praise of Speed: The Value of Velocity in Contemporary Cinema', Dandelion Journal, 2.1, 2011
• Donato Totaro, Time and the long take in The Magnificent Ambersons, Ugetsu and Stalker, PhD Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001
• Harry Tuttle, 'Slower or Contemplative?', Unspoken Cinema, March 17, 2010
• Harry Tuttle, 'Slow films, easy life (Sight and Sound)', Unspoken Cinema, May 12, 2010
• James Udden, 'Child of the Long Take: Alfonso Cuaron’s Film Aesthetics in the Shadow of Globalization', Style, Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2009
• Noah Viernes, 'Cinematic Forms and the Assembly of Cities', MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities, Special Issue No.15, 2008