Cow/Slow Cinema: Feminism, Time, and Labour

Video essay about Andrea Arnold's documentary COW (2021) and its representation of time, feminism, motherhood, and labour under capitalism. An important addition to slow cinema films like Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman (1975) and Robert Bresson's Au hazard Balthazar (1966), COW also continues Arnold's social realist style and emphasis on the corporeal and "creaturely" as analysed by Amber Jacobs, doi.org/10.336... (2016). COW suggests a 'cyclical' temporality evocative of Tania Modleski's reflection on classical women's films of the 1940s in 'Time and Desire in the Woman's Film'.
Media used:
Cow (Andrea Arnold, 2021)
Cow official trailer (2021)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Jeanne Dielman... (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
Le sang des bêtes (Georges Franju, 1949)
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
COW is now showing on MUBI.
This video is for critical, fair-use purposes only. I do not claim the rights to any media used.
Song featured: "Milk" by Garbage in COW trailer.