The average length of shot in The Bourne Ultimatum is two seconds. But a new festival argues for 'slow cinema' – an act of cultural resistance, but also a gateway to beauty and delight
"I think that what a person normally goes to cinema for is time," claimed the film director Andrei Tarkovsky. He felt this so deeply he entitled his 1987 memoir Sculpting In Time. According to Geoff Dyer, author of the recently published Zona, a meditation on the Russian director's best-known work Stalker (1979), it's a statement that needs tweaking: "What people go to the cinema for is a good time, not to sit there waiting for something to happen."
Time is the subject – the essence, as it were – of one of the most imaginative festivals to be staged in the UK for many years. Av Festival 12, taking place throughout March in venues across Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesborough, is the anti-Olympics.
"I think that what a person normally goes to cinema for is time," claimed the film director Andrei Tarkovsky. He felt this so deeply he entitled his 1987 memoir Sculpting In Time. According to Geoff Dyer, author of the recently published Zona, a meditation on the Russian director's best-known work Stalker (1979), it's a statement that needs tweaking: "What people go to the cinema for is a good time, not to sit there waiting for something to happen."
Time is the subject – the essence, as it were – of one of the most imaginative festivals to be staged in the UK for many years. Av Festival 12, taking place throughout March in venues across Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesborough, is the anti-Olympics.
- 3/10/2012
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
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