Slowness as a Strategy of the Contemporary through Films

Heald, Karen (2021) Slowness as a Strategy of the Contemporary through Films. Airea: Arts and Interdisciplinary Research (3). pp. 82-102. ISSN 2516-8061

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Abstract

In Future Studies and the History of Technology accelerating change is a perceived increase in the rate of technological change throughout history. This may suggest faster and more profound change in the future and may or may not be accompanied by equally profound social and cultural change. Responding to the accelerating technological landscape and contemporary life, this paper researches how the concept of ‘time’ plays a significant role. The author, an experimental filmmaker, charts an experiential journey within several pivotal ‘dream films’, along with relevant artists’ moving images in relation to time and slowness in the moving image as critical media. As contemporary life has become more and more fast paced, and one year on the impact of COVID-19 is still being felt, the idea of stillness is beginning to become a more desirable commodity. The author explores ‘slow cinema’, acknowledging seminal directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Claire Denis, as well as art films which frequently emphasise long takes, offering minimalist aesthetics with little or no narrative. In an endeavour to portray different temporalities and reveal and allude to the invisibility of time, the author relates to Julia Kristeva’s notions of intertextuality, transposition and time, and Lutz Koepnik’s concept of slowness as a strategy of the contemporary. The author discusses four ‘dream films’, where painterly, poetic, non-linear narratives, and in-between spaces are played out: FRIDA Travels to Ibiza, Cycle, Llafarganu Papagei and Frock.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Collaborations, Kristeva, Arts and Science, Dream Films, Interdisciplinary, in-between methods
Divisions:	Creative Arts
Depositing User:	Hayley Dennis
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2021 16:59
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2021 16:59
URI:	https://glyndwr.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17837

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