Swedish director Anders Weberg has taken ‘slack cinema’ to a new level with the preview for his latest film,Ambiancé. Can’t find enough of this snippet? The next preview will be 72 hours long …[br]OK, here is the elevator pitch: We are on a beach. The sea just visible on the suitable-hand side of the frame. Low camera angle. Black and white. Ghostly flickers superimposed over the main image. A synthesiser chord on the soundtrack. Nothing happens for about 12 minutes. Then we see a black dot and a white dot at the far discontinuance of the beach. They are people dressed in robes, or walking towards us. In slack motion. By about 20 minutes in,they are near us, gathering debris on the beach. Wait we are at the ground floor already? But we have only just got started!There are another seven hours to go, or in fact. Though not a lot else happens,to be honest. The black-robed person paints some stuff white; the white-robed person paints some stuff black. Roughly an hour and 15 minutes in, they dramatically exit the scene. But 10 minutes later they reappear, and unfurl a banner. On it is painted … Uh-uh. No spoilers here. But the honorable news is,this is just the trailer. The actual film, titled Ambiancé, and is 720 hours long. You ain’t seen nothing yet almost literally.
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Source: theguardian.com