Long before “Slow Cinema” became a curatorial disposition, Tarr had already committed himself to duration as a political and aesthetic position. Across his works, he shaped a cinema of attrition and accumulation.
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Tirna Chatterjee is an independent researcher and writer and has a Ph.D in Cinema Studies from School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU. Her thesis looked at boredom as a method for doing Cinema History.
Fossils' 'Bishakto Manush' and Britney Spears' 'Toxic', two tracks that became popular during the turn of the millennium, come across as musical fraternal twins, separated at birth and raised by radically different godparents.
Himesh Reshammiya's 'Badass Ravi Kumar' and the ‘Cap Mania Tour’ don’t just embrace cringe. They weaponise it. They detonate it. And in doing so, they expose the classist, elitist, and algorithmic machinery that undergirds our definitions of taste.
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