Film and the Ethical Imagination by Asbjorn Gronstad

Author:Asbjorn Gronstad
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

This line of thinking is not far from that of Bazin in his "Ontology" essay. Temporality—that is, duration—is what makes presence and its effects possible, and presence, again, is what makes possible the unfolding (and unlocking) of the world with all its enigmas. The temps morts of slow cinema, for instance, is thus something more than just empty time, empty shots; it is an attempted visualization of that which cannot be visualized, presence. Film “puts the empty moment to work,” as Leo Charney writes. 25 This mobilization of presence in slow cinema might open up the domains of both spirituality and ethics. The experience of boredom, exhaustion, and sheer drudgery that some claim accompanies slow cinema is therefore not an impediment to an appreciation of the form, nor is it exactly its “point,” as Erika Balsom has suggested; 26 rather, the process of making duration visible is a stylistic means by which to trigger an empathetic investment in the world depicted on screen.

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