Y: SLOW TV Cinema

Drops of wasted time trickle down the relaxed bodies of visitors, capturing the boredom of a long afternoon. Day and night blur into one continuous stream of slow films, forming a temporal structure with regular hourly intervals. Attention is unfocused, concentration dispersed, and sleep arrives and departs in an irregular rhythm. Binge-watching? Slow TV cinema offers us time and rest, inviting us to slow down.

A performative event that encourages visitors to unwind and immerse themselves in the flow of moving images. Twenty-four films by twenty-four artists from various backgrounds, projected one after another. For Y: Slow TV Cinema, artists were commissioned to challenge their usual production methods by creating footage with minimal content. The format rejects plot and composition in favor of focusing on the “live-image” object. As a result, the film offers a spatial gaze instead of a linear narrative. For some, the challenge lies in the medium itself—how would a performance artist see their work through a camera lens? For others, the challenge is in the limited attention span created by Slow TV—how much artistic labor goes into a production that demands minimal engagement from the audience?

10:30 Doors open
11:00 BUI: Longing for the Sea
12:00 Dzintars Krūmiņš: Lazy Day
13:00 Shar&Kiek: Laminate
14:00 Tamara Moyzes & Shlomi Yaffe: Goddess Lacteria: Visualizing Scholar Voices
15:00 Guiot Duermeijer: The Social Womhole
16:00 Kirils Ēcis & Guna Zariņa: Es Šodien Neko Neizdarīju / I Did Nothing Today
17:00 Agnese Krivade: They Have Emptied Out My Shoulder
18:00 iona&rineke: Preparations
19:00 Dries Verhoeven: Gently Down the Stream
20:00 Kateř Tureček: This is Fine
21:00 Venuri Perera: See You See Me 3.0
22:00 Jānis Šneiders: Resonant Cavity
23:00 Oskar Helcel: Study of riding shared e-scooter no.4
00:00 lobbyboy&saab900turbo: Macocha
01:00 Laura Stasane: Sweet is the Island Breeze
02:00 Katrīna Rudzīte: The Steps
03:00 Ikars G & Karu T: day, today, to day
04:00 Matěj Nytra: Um barn sem vildi ekki hafa þak yfir höfuðið (caught realities)
05:00 Mailo Mēness: Saullēkts Nākotnē / Future Sunrise
06:00 Jan Frič: Last Summer
07:00 Bára Bažantová & Adam Smrekovský: Housle srdcem slepím / Play the fiddle
08:00 alaa minawi: untold
09:00 T.I.T.S. performance group: Self Love
10:00 Studio Julian Hetzel: The Triumph of Desire over Reason