Slow Cinema Movies

‘Under the Weight of a Waking Dream’ is Zefier's debut swan song to the ending year. Comprised of poetry and endless enumerations is a...

A short film made for YouTube during the COVID quarantine. A man wakes up in a trash bag and has an encounter with the one who put him there.

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...

Valentino wanders through the city like an apparition, ensnared in the liminal space between nostalgia and departure. His camera fragments reality...

Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike is Zefier's third film.

Once the beating heart of Beijing’s steel industry, Shougang was a leviathan forged from iron and fire. Its blast furnaces once echoed with...

A person performs routine tasks and relaxing activities to fight a troubling zeitgeist.

A nighttime montage of strangers drifting through the city, People Like Ghosts is an experimental visual poem exploring modern isolation, silent...

Hamvas Béla út 11. is a meditative avant-garde exploration bridging two great Hungarian visionaries, released in honor of director...

A day home alone during the summer of my freshman year of college.

After surviving a tragic car accident, a man with a learner's licence and a dead phone must find his way home while battling the grief of losing his...

A young woman comes home, thinking she’s alone.

Two extraordinary people go on several dates in New York City and plan a project that may change the world for the better.

An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that...

A short film made for YouTube during the COVID quarantine. A character battles boredom, depression and intrusive thoughts.

A woman returning home after having a sour day decides to sleep.

Beyond the borders of the waking world lie strange dream-realms, where star forms transmit rainbows and aqueous flowers birth moon-pearls. Toby...

A man obsessed with motivational and right wing culture war videos goes on a hollow road trip of discovery.

Lola's Rainbow is a film about the mundanity of life. It's about feeling trapped in the everyday cycle of repetition. The rainbow is symbolic for...