TIME AS A SYMPTOM

What happens after all the time is spent?

Rather than spending time like it’s some debased currency, The Beacon Cinema invites you to hold the heavy body of time in your arms, look deep into her eyes and find meaning again.

Let’s get one thing out of the way; slow cinema is not a genre or movement. It’s a style, a mode, a pace that is not limited to a period or place. Experiencing time is a symptom of cinema’s very essence. Some filmmakers embrace this and let time fill the screen—that’s all slow cinema is. Slowness is a collaborative process put forward by the artist and ultimately achieved in the spectator who fully tastes the stillness of time.

TIME AS A SYMPTOM: SLOW CINEMA AND ITS REVERBERATIONS is an ongoing monthly film series that offers the hurried masses an opportunity to perceive what time really feels like again.

3/29 - SÁTÁNTANGÓ
4/26 - JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
5/31 - STALKER
6/28 - AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL
7/26 - THE HEADLESS WOMAN
8/30 - COLOSSAL YOUTH
9/27 - REBELS OF THE NEON GOD
10/25 - LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST
11/29 - BAXTER, VERA BAXTER
12/27 - 11x14 (16mm)

And more next year.