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This is a wonderful video essay and thanks for including a woman director Chantel i subscribed

Such an awesome video series. So easy to understand concepts across past present and future. Thanks a lot for making it. Just a suggestion it would be great if you could do a video series on melodrama and the way realism and melodrama blends in. Only if you're interested of course😂 thanks again❤

When I hear slow cinema I see Lee Kang-sheng’s face.

Thank you

great videos !!! Can I ask you to elaborate on the term ontology in Basin's writing ?

Thank u to this short studying

Excellent video. I especially like linking up Bazin’s descriptions of scenes with the scenes themselves, as it’s often true that people haven’t seen or don’t really remember something he’s using as a paradigmatic example of what he means by “realism.” It’s hard to grasp what he’s really talking about without that. My take on Bazin is complicated by the fact that I think his overall philosophy is basically right - cinema, broadly speaking, if it is to be and remain an ethical art form true to its potential, must acknowledge respectfully the sovereignty of reality over the artist’s will - while I also think his examples can be confusing and contradictory, and thus can seem somehow both restrictive and arbitrary, weakening the punch of the principles he’s advocating. I prefer to read Bazin as a philosopher of cinema providing an account of its proper ends and means, and thus its proper motivating spirit (respect for reality, respect for the personhood of the audience members) - whoever called him the Aristotle of cinema was completely right. His general points about techniques that are prone to authoritarian and manipulative uses vs. contrary techniques that act like blocks against the artist’s narcissistic urge to dictate rather than explore are very well taken, but still can come off as not clearly defined because of the presence of his own intuitive judgment in preferring one example of “realism” to another. Overall, I think he’s guided by a solid insight into aesthetics, namely that one intuits whether the artist is respectful and honest or hubristic and manipulative, and then tries to understand how these differences manifest in formal techniques and mise-en-scene. The problem comes when one tries, as Bazin sometimes does, to read the spirit backwards from the techniques, instead of taking the whole as one’s primary datum. Bazin and Gestalt theory were a match made in heaven that never happened on earth, sadly. So, one can easily draw a bad inference about a forest from looking at one or a few specimens. At the same time, holistic intuition - sensing the “spirit” of a work - is both absolutely necessary and prone to subjective bias. Nonetheless, this discussion can’t get off the ground without it, and I think Bazin often overemphasized the extent to which a realist spirit could be read off from “specimens in the forest,” so to speak. In a realist vein, we grasp the “spirit” of people in the same way, intuiting a certain honesty or wildness or whatever based on looks, gestures, behavior, hearsay, etc. - trying as best as possible to judge based on the whole person, not just particular scenes or instances. I suppose Bazin knew that proceeding by examples was the only way he could make his point empirically and thus convincingly to eyes looking for scientific solidity, but that’s still only part of the picture.

Great choice of image from _This Sporting Life_ at 09:36. It references a metaphor Bazin uses in another essay, "An Aesthetic of Reality" (from the second volume of What is Cinema?). Describing the fragmented and elliptical nature of Rossellini's narratives, Bazin says that as we watch the "mind has to leap from one event to the other as one leaps from stone to stone in crossing a river" (35).

Could do without the Muzak. It’s distracting.

Great video ! Love your essay in the style of Mark Cousins The Story of Film: An Odyssey : )

Thanks alot for the resourceful video. I am studying here in the National Cinema Institute in Egypt. I have an exam tomorrow and you have been very helpful to me. Keep up the great work.

loving the edited artistry of video 1-2-3

The drama of that ending <chefs kiss>

Gorgeous. Thank you

Video davvero ben scritto e montato. Il cinema lento è l'essenza del cinema per me. Unico neo: la tua voce è molto sussiegosa e l'accento terribilmente snervante! Ovviamente non sono nessuno per criticare, ma prendila come una percezione soggettiva volta alla costruttività. Libero di realizzare i tuoi saggi come preferisci, naturalmente! Se l'effetto era voluto, mi taccio. Iscritto, spero di vedere altro!

Love this essay and have it in 'bookmarks' to get back to. Thanks a lot for putting it in, this is my guide to slow cinema and I go back to it to recap some things and to look for movies/directors to watch :)

Beautifully written and presented. Really enjoyed this video. ^_^

I followed your Letterboxd for a while but I didn't know you have a TH-cam channel. Great job, Frank! Tbh I found this video randomly and I recognized it's yours based on the thumbnail.

Rewatching this series again. Amazing work. Hope you make more

Hey, could you perhaps provide a small list of films which could serve as a nice introduction to slow cinema?

Cool.

Expecting more works from you brother 😍😍😍😍

Amazing job🙏 Great great Feeling empty brother.... This is why i love slow cinema 👍

Love from INDIA

I loved the pace of your shortfilms👍👍😍😍

Great great brother Really inspiring

Great thought brother I really loved it👍👍

Digital filmmaking has helped so many directors especially in my state Kerala, India where the budget is bare minimum. We have short films inside cars and under a bridge that did well recently.

The ending was 👍🏾. The information refreshing.

Best of luck for your documentary 👍🏾

Good video essay. Nice presentation.

Loved this one too. The film Red actually made me feel blood during the scene when you try to cut off your hand. This one is sublime and disturbing at the same time. I too make short films. The recent one is Kaleidoscope. Please check it out and express your opinion.

Loved your video.

Just found out your channel and im in love with the content 😭💖im also a cinema student and your repertoire surely is going to help me a lot!! Thanks for the work!!

Really wonderful work. Thank you so much - I'm referring my post-grad students to your videos. Much appreciated.

Hey all, sorry it took me so long to make this! It may not look like it, but this video required a lot of extra research on the side that overlapped with some of my other projects. That, and I have zero work ethic when it comes to these lol I hope you like this new style, where it's mostly camera footage with very few film clips. This allows me to use draw more attention to the clips I use and also to avoid copyright claims. What other subjects would you like me to make a video on? Are you a film/media student who would like to understand a topic better? Is there a director/film you'd like me to analyse? Comment below!

Do you have account in letterboxd ?

loved that you picked Days as your thumbnail. lol

beautifully explained! thank you so much~

Couldn't understand Bazin's view of realism. Kept confusing it with documentary style of film making. these 2 cleared it up, thank you!When is part 3 gonna come?

Great and informative content, thanks for sharing all this film knowledge! I'll sure check out your other content, keep it going

Good video!

Great!!

Between the last video and this, we reached 150 subscribers, thank you all so much! Please remember to engage with the video by leaving a comment and a like. Not only will it make the video more visible, but it will also notify me that people are watching and force me to deliver sooner on Part 3 :)

YES, we are doing a similar project, tracking the history of realism in cinema from Actualities to now. Keep up the good work. Realism is a neglected area in my eyes.

Great work, keep it up!

Very interesting video dude, keep it up!

Great video, thank you!

Amazing work Francesco!!

This was a very good essay, I added some of the directors films you mentioned, slow cinema if that’s the name or not is truly digital art