Slow Cinema Movies

Reya’s World delves into the raw and poignant struggle of a young woman navigating the depths of depression. Feeling trapped in a seemingly...

‘Death Sounds a Quiet Gong’ was originally screened at Village Works (12 St. Marks Place, New York City, NY) on October 24, 2025. The...

A young woman comes home, thinking she’s alone.

A quiet little suburb not far from here. It's Sunday. The sun's out. And so are the husbands...

Once the beating heart of Beijing’s steel industry, Shougang was a leviathan forged from iron and fire. Its blast furnaces once echoed with...

An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that...

A short film made for YouTube during the COVID quarantine. A man suffers an annoying itch, and goes to extreme lengths to get rid of it.

As the inevitable end approaches, Ashraf spends those final moments not so differently from before; moving through life and spending time with his...

A slow cinema and remodernist inspired piece expressing the monotony of the unavoidable perpetual daily routine and how creativity can diminish,...

A nighttime montage of strangers drifting through the city, People Like Ghosts is an experimental visual poem exploring modern isolation, silent...

A kaleidoscopic perspective into one woman's experience with self-dissolution and urban alienation.

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

A dark depiction of an all-encompassing system, that tries to accept depression and negativity by slowly crawling into the empty calmness.

Images captured inside the domestic space during confinement are reconverted into a journey towards sidereal environments. The light manifests. The...

The Greek word for mayfly (its order in biological systematics) - ephemeroptera - can be split and translated as having short-lived wings. The oldest...

Two days in the life of the director and his two friends -filled of art, nature, boredom and joviality- in their birthplace: Sicily.

Beyond the borders of the waking world lie strange dream-realms, where star forms transmit rainbows and aqueous flowers birth moon-pearls. Toby...

A person must arise, have a telephone call, and go for a walk. There are many pitfalls on this journey. A depraved debunking of Slow Cinema.

A woman goes through her day to day life while navigating faith and longing