I Watched a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters to Confront My Dwindling Attention Span | WIRED "Sátántango" is considered a holy rite for hardcore cinephiles. In a packed screening with no cellphones in sight, it also offered a salve for brain rot.

Film at Lincoln Center screens Béla Tarr’s 439‑min Sátántango, exploring #SlowCinema and attention‑span challenges. #Film
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How Watching Béla Tarr’s 7.5-Hour Epic Restored Faith in Our Attention Span John Semley’s Wired article explores the experience of watching Béla Tarr’s seven-and-a-half-hour film *Sátántango* in a Manhattan theater and how it challenged modern notions of dwindling attention spans. The 1994 Hungarian masterpiece, famous for its slow pace and long takes, served as the centerpiece of Film at Lincoln Center’s farewell tribute to Tarr after his death in January 2026. The film’s scarcity and its nearly meditative viewing experience attracted over 250 committed viewers willing to sit through 439 minutes of bleak yet poetic cinema. The author reflects on how such an experience feels radical in an age of multitasking, notifications, and endless short-form content. Experts like programmer Tyler Wilson and professor Lexi Turner explain that ‘slow cinema’ demands patience, contemplation, and presence, qualities increasingly absent from modern media habits. As the audience collectively surrendered to the film’s rhythm, details such as rainfall, gestures, and even minor irritations became magnified. Semley emphasizes that watching *Sátántango* in a communal setting—without distractions—transformed it from a mere screening into a test of focus and endurance. Despite initial cynicism, he sees hope: audiences are rediscovering interest in experiences that demand time and attention, from long books to marathon films. The sold-out screenings suggest a counter-movement to digital distraction, proving that deep attention still thrives when given a space to exist.

How Watching Béla Tarr’s 7.5-Hour Epic Restored Faith in Our Attention Span

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Silent Rain or It Stopped Raining (2019) - Ryûtarô Nakagawa | In the Dark, in the Midst of Vastness In the dark, in the midst of vastness, all that remains is to search for your face... An Immersion into Melancholy Silent Rain, or It Stop...

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Lavender Hush

A hand passing through summer.

Shot in Bodrum, Lavender Hush was built around a simple gesture: a hand moving through sun-dried lavender in slow motion.

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Slow cinema music video for "Passage XLII," filmed on a very foggy day on the Staten Island ferry. From "Passages XXXIII-XLIII (for Piano, Guitar, and Bass)," out June 1st from Bad Channels Records.
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Moon in Taurus (🇩🇪 1980). Director Gerhard Wittmann's experimental documentary follows Bavarian farmers through seasonal rhythms. 🎬

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i never knew the world was turning.

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Innocence (🇧🇪/🇫🇷/🇬🇧 2004). Lucile Hadzihalilovic's debut feature follows young girls at a mysterious forest school. 🎬

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Magellan Review - Sarah G. Vincent Views Sarah G. Vincent Views' hot take on Magellan

New review: Magellan
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Magellan Lav Diaz turns the story of Magellan into a fascinating anti-epic about the horrors of colonialization.

Lav Diaz's Magellan is a fascinating anti-epic, a historical biopic that is more interested in the moments after or to the side of the moments that history remembers.
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Lost In Fields Part One_Knaves Ash (2020) The first of three short films produced for the Kick-About #6 on a theme of 'A Field Guide To Getting Lost: https://reds-kingdom.blog/category/the-kick-about/ View…

Lost in Fields, Part One: Knave’s Ash (June 2020). The very start of a lock-down project, which saw me swooning over this one extraordinary field...

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Slow cinema is not for everyone. We however quite enjoy Tsai Ming-liang's films. Listen episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwkK...

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Watched Perfect Days last night. It’s a film that understands the quiet dignity of routine. No grand gestures, no dramatic arcs, just a man, his work, and the small, unspoken rhythms of a life well-lived.

It’s refreshing to see something that doesn’t scream for attention.

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writ. Yen Hung-ya, Edward Yang, Alex Yang, Mingtang Lai
ed. Chen Po-Wen
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Всё самое сильное — по ссылке в био.
The most powerful visuals — link in bio.
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Между вдохом и исчезновением.
Жизнь в био.
Between inhale and disappearance.
Prompt in bio.

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Она слишком реальна, чтобы быть правдой.
Промт в био.
Too real to be true.
Prompt in bio.

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Слишком реально, чтобы быть правдой.
Промт в био.
Too real to be true.
Prompt in bio.
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🔥 TARDES DE SOLEDAD – Albert Serra sprengt die Grenzen des Kinos. Er fordert uns heraus, hinzusehen, wo wir am liebsten wegschauen würden.

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Brwa Vahabpour's feature debut tackles a very topical matter of migration. It's a shame that it goes for quick fixes in order to set up and resolve its plot, but all in all this proved a warm, endearing tale. 7

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The Endless Inning: Carson Lund’s Eephus and the Wiseman Effect Eephus (2024) symbolically featuring Frederick Wiseman’s voice feels like overkill. The film is already a clear homage to the legendary documentarian, and Wiseman’s literal presence edges it from t…

Is Eephus a loving Wiseman homage, a sly parody, or both? Carson Lund’s quietly surreal baseball odyssey turns small-town inertia into slow-motion spectacle.
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Mañana de #slowcinema 📽️🖤❤️
Muchos favoritos y tanto aún por ver!

Rosa Barotsi's book "Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema" will be published next week by ICI Berlin Press.
#filmsky #slowcinema

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Buenos días, cineasiáticos. ¿Os parece si nos vamos de viaje a Taiwán? A partir de hoy en la @filmotecacat podrán verse paisajes como este. #traimingliang #slowcinema

Ever wonder what machines dream of?

This isn’t a story. It’s a glitch in the dark. A memory remix.
“This Is What Dreams Look Like to a Machine” is live now:
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#aBitGlitched #SlowCinema #AIEsthetics

5x1000 dai che forse qualche "anima pia, si sente candida e su nel cielo ci farà volare"...si scherza. Non troppo però.☄️ #slowcinema

Farrel, the main character of sorts, leaves the ship he works on.

Farrel wakes up in a rundown bus after passing out there, drunk.

Farrel walks away from the sawmill, which is perhaps more of the center point of this film than he is.

Farrel with a bottle of vodka in hand.

LIVERPOOL, from Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso, is a movie that acts like an anti-Odysseus story in a way. It's slow, very deliberate, and feels as cold as its setting in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

Watched on Kanopy.

My Letterboxd review: boxd.it/9E0YrX

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