Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema characterised by a style that is minimalist , observational, and with little or no narrative , and which typically emphasizes long takes . It is sometimes called "contemplative cinema".
28-412: Lavrente Indico Diaz (born December 30, 1958) is a Filipino independent filmmaker and former film critic. He is frequently known as one of the key members of the slow cinema movement, and has made several of the longest narrative films on record. Diaz is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary Filipino filmmakers. Diaz started making films in the late 1990s. His first international exposure
56-496: A "slow film director keeps his viewer on the hook, thinking there's a reward, a payoff just around the corner." Recently, film scholars Katherine Fusco and Nicole Seymour have written that the slow cinema movement's supporters and detractors have both mischaracterized it. As they argue, much "commentary posits slow cinema as a kind of pastoral for the present moment, a respite from our technologically saturated ... Hollywood-blockbuster-centered era." Such commentary therefore associates
84-672: A Slow Cinema Weekend at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle in March 2012, including the films of Rivers, Lav Diaz , Lisandro Alonso and Fred Kelemen . Recent examples include films by Kelly Reichardt , Bruno Dumont , Albert Serra , Apichatpong Weerasethakul , Jia Zhangke , Hou Hsiao-hsien , Tsai Ming-Liang , Lav Diaz , Sergei Loznitsa , Carlos Reygadas , Amat Escalante , Lisandro Alonso , Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Pedro Costa . Sources: Sight & Sound noted of
112-508: A production assistant for Balintataw . For a time, he wrote comics as part of the editorial staff for Ang Masa and We Forum . Diaz worked as a critic for the Manila Standard newspaper in the late 1980s before moving to New York City to study filmmaking. His Filipino-language short story, "Pula, Puti at Saka Blu at Marami Pang Kolor" ( lit. ' Red, White and Also Blue and Many Other Colors ' ), which he wrote under
140-667: A recognized, default artistic idiom." The Guardian' s film blog concluded that "being less overweeningly precious about films that are likely to be impenetrable to even the most well-informed audiences would seem an idea." Dan Fox of Frieze criticized both the dichotomy of the argument into "philistine" vs "pretentious" and the reductiveness of the term "slow cinema". The American director Paul Schrader wrote about slow cinema in his 1972 book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer , and called it an aesthetic tool. He argues that most viewers find slow cinema boring, but that
168-469: The 2023 Locarno Film Festival out of competition. Diaz's next film, Phantosmia , premiered as an out-of-competition entry in the 81st Venice International Film Festival , his 8th film for the festival. In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Diaz signed an open letter published in Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of
196-709: The Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear); and The Woman Who Left (2016) competed at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and won the Golden Lion . He received the FAMAS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. He is the recipient of 2021's Natatanging Gawad Urian (Gawad Urian Lifetime Achievement Award). Diaz was born in Columbio , Cotabato . His childhood was marked by the violent conflicts between Muslim armed groups and
224-890: The Jeonju International Film Festival and gained the On-Screen Award at the Images Festival . His 2013 film Norte, the End of History was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 66th Cannes Film Festival . He received the Golden Leopard at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival for From What Is Before . At the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, his film A Lullaby to
252-526: The Philippine government . Due to the dangerous situation, his family moved to the more peaceful town of Tacurong where he finished his high school education. Diaz graduated in 1980 with an economics degree from Notre Dame University in Cotabato City . Diaz went to Manila where began doing odd jobs for various publications and took up writing about music and film for a living. Then, he became
280-563: The Un Certain Regard section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and received much critical praise. Diaz's subsequent films have likewise received positive critical attention and many awards. From What Is Before (2014) won the Golden Leopard at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival ; A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016) competed for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival and won
308-583: The " Pulitzer Prize of the Philippines," it is the country's highest literary honor in terms of prestige. It was named after Carlos Palanca Sr. , the Chinese Filipino businessman and philanthropist. The literary competition began with a long-term vision straddling two complementary tracks: to provide incentives for Filipino writers to craft the best literary pieces, and to be a treasury to the country's literary gems. Winning works are entered in
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#1732793334675336-836: The Closing Film of the orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival 2007, was awarded with a Golden Lion Special Mention. Death in the Land of Encantos was also in competition at the Artistic Innovation Award (Visions) of the Toronto International Film Festival 2007. He was three Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature recognitions (a second place (1990) and an honorable mention (1991) for short stories, and third place (1997) for screenplay). His film Melancholia won
364-677: The Gaza Strip , and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages. Nominated - Best International Film at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards . Nominated - Un Certain Regard at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival . Winner Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival Premiered at 2018 Berlin Film Festival in Competition Slow cinema Practitioners of
392-695: The Orizzonti Grand Prize at the 65th Venice International Film Festival in 2008. In January 2011, he joined the board of directors for Cine Foundation International . He went back in 2011 at the Venice International Film Festival for his film Siglo ng Pagluluwal ( Century of Birthing ) and which earned the Grand Jury Prize at the 13th Cinemanila International Film Festival . The following year, his film Florentina Hubaldo, CTE won Best Asian Film at
420-621: The Palanca Awards. In the early decades, writers could submit multiple submissions per category, often resulting to multiple wins [plus designated honorable mentions or special prizes]. Starting on the 60th awards year, for which the call for submissions opened on 1 March 2010, contestants can submit only one entry each in the following categories: English Division Filipino Division Regional Languages Division Kabataan Division (open only to those below 18 years of age) Discontinued Categories The Palanca Hall of Fame honors
448-484: The Sorrowful Mystery was awarded the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize . In the same year, he also received the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival for The Woman Who Left . Diaz has made crime stories, ghost stories and a musical. On the topic of genre Diaz has said, "It’s nice to dwell on genres because there are formulas there and you can work with them. But at
476-621: The Urian), in Gawad Urian in 2005 for the film Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino ( Evolution of a Filipino Family ), and Special Jury Prize at the Fribourg International Film Festival in 2006 for Heremias, Book One . His films often tackle the issues regarding the current social and political state of the Philippines. His film Kagadanan sa Banwaan ning mga Engkanto ( Death in the Land of Encantos ),
504-623: The awards night has been held on September 1, to commemorate the birthday of Carlos Palanca Sr. (although there have been changes of dates in the intervening years). Venues that have hosted the celebratory dinner include the Philippine Columbian Clubhouse, New Selecta, Hilton Hotel, Hyatt Regency Hotel, La Tondeña Building, Philippine International Convention Center, Dusit Hotel, the Peninsula Manila, and Marquis Events Place. There are currently 22 categories in
532-561: The competition either as previously published pieces or in manuscript form. The Palanca Awards, organized by the Carlos Palanca Foundation, is one of the Philippines' longest-running awards programs. Among its winners include several National Artists for Literature, including Nick Joaquin , Edith L. Tiempo , Gemino H. Abad , Cirilo F. Bautista , F. Sionil Jose , NVM Gonzales , Bienvenido Lumbera , Amado V. Hernandez , and Virgilio Almario . The Palanca Awards
560-495: The definition of slow cinema that "The length of a shot, on which much of the debate revolves, is a quite abstract measure if divorced from what takes place within it". The Guardian contrasted the long takes of the genre with the two-second average shot length in Hollywood action movies, and noted that "they opt for ambient noises or field recordings rather than bombastic sound design, embrace subdued visual schemes that require
588-559: The genre include Andrei Tarkovsky , Michelangelo Antonioni , Robert Bresson , Lav Diaz , Pedro Costa , Pier Paolo Pasolini , Aleksandr Sokurov , Béla Tarr , Chantal Akerman , Theo Angelopoulos and Abbas Kiarostami . Greek director Theo Angelopoulos has been called an "icon of the so-called Slow Cinema movement". Examples of the style include Ben Rivers 's Two Years at Sea , Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte , and Shaun Wilson 's 51 Paintings . Recent underground film movements such as Remodernist film share
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#1732793334675616-537: The movement with pleasure and relaxation. But in reality, slow cinema films often focus on down-and-out laborers; as Fusco and Seymour argue, "for those on the fringes of society, modernity is actually experienced as slowness, and usually to their great detriment." Palanca Awards The Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature , popularly known as the Palanca Awards , are a set of literary awards for Philippine writers. Usually referred to as
644-804: The pseudonym Bahagharing Timog ( lit. ' Southern Rainbow ' ), won 2nd place at the 1990 Palanca Awards under the category of Short Story - Filipino. He has won several international awards such as the award for Best Picture at the Singapore International Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival of Brussels and Gawad Urian in 2002 and Netpac Jury Prize and Best Acting Ensemble (2001 Cinemanila International Film Festival) for his film Batang West Side (including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Music, Best Sound at
672-843: The same time you’re free to break them." He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, the Prince Claus Award of the Netherlands in 2014 and The Radcliffe Fellowship of Harvard University, 2016–2017. Diaz was invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to join as a member in July 2017. Diaz presented his film, Essential Truths of the Lake , a sequel to When the Waves Are Gone , at
700-449: The sensibility of slow or contemplative cinema. G. Aravindan was a filmmaker whose works such as Kanchana Sita , Thampu and Esthappan have been regarded as embodying a uniquely original style of contemplative cinema where the aesthetic sensibility and philosophical insights of Indian culture could find a meditative mode of expression within more universal contexts of humanism and transcendentalism . The AV Festival held
728-619: The viewer's eye to do more work, and evoke a sense of mystery that springs from the landscapes and local customs they depict more than it does from generic convention." The genre has been described as an "act of organized resistance" similar to the Slow food movement. Slow cinema has been criticized as indifferent or even hostile to audiences. A backlash by Sight & Sound 's Nick James, and picked up by online writers, argued that early uses of long takes were "adventurous provocations created by extremists", whereas recent films are "operating within
756-626: Was at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 1999 with his directorial debut Serafin Geronimo: Ang Kriminal ng Baryo Concepcion ( The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion ). The Hong Kong event went on to present his next two features: Naked Under the Moon in 2000 and Batang West Side in 2001. European film festivals only caught on with Norte, the End of History (2013), which was entered into
784-546: Was established in 1950 to inspire and recognize Philippine writers, including poets, playwrights and screenwriters, and writers for children. It started giving out prizes in the Short Story (English) and Maikling Kwento (Filipino) in 1951. In the 1960s, the Palanca Awards Committee started to fund the publication of Palanca Award-winning plays, and production funds were committed in 1975. Since 1954,
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