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Chantal Akerman famously forced art house festival audiences to endure a grueling three hour runtime of real time chores in her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman to make viewers…
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Nothing screams high cinematic art quite like watching a woman aggressively peel potatoes in absolute silence. Slow cinema operates on the sadistic premise that boredom is a valid artistic medium. By refusing to cut away from agonizingly long domestic chores, Akerman essentially trapped pretentious festival crowds in the inescapable prison of mid-century housewife duties.
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