Podcast - Slow Cinema Weekend, Av Festival, March 2012

Photo from the film Two Years At Sea (2011) from Ben Rivers, shown
 during the Slow Cinema Weekend ,  AV festival 2012

This is a 28-minute podcast about the Slow Cinema Weekend, which took place from the 8 to 11 March 2012 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, as part of the AV Festival (http://www.avfestival.co.uk/).

The podcast includes extracts from a discussion on Slow Cinema in which you can hear the views from the film critic Jonathan Romney, the blogger and Phd student Matthew Flanagan (http://landscapesuicide.blogspot.fr/), the film curator George Clark, and the artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers. The podcast also includes an interview with Kate Taylor, Exhibition Officer at the Independent Cinema Office, about Slow Cinema, the AV Festival, and  cinema exhibition in Newcastle upon Tyne, and a short interview with an audience member, Stephen Bear.

You can listen to the podcast here:

http://soundcloud.com/film-and-beyond/podcast-slow-cinema-wkend