Private Project

Slow Revolution

Part diary, part essay, part documentary, and part fiction. In this homage to Chris Marker's Sans Soleil, an unseen woman reads from the letters, postcards, and emails she's received over the years from a globe-trotting cameraman, her former lover and colleague. He shares footage with her from his more than three decades of filming around the world, reflecting on his experiences during this time of democratic instability, climate catastrophe, runaway technology and a global pandemic. Meanwhile, the woman is torn as to whether to reunite with him or not.

  • Rustin Thompson
    Director
    30 Frames A Second, Quick Brown Fox, The Church on Dauphine Street, Zona Intangible, My Mother Was Here
  • Rustin Thompson
    Writer
    see above
  • Rustin Thompson
    Producer
    see above
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    52 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 31, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Cine Pobre Film Festival (Mexico City)
    Mexico City
  • Visions du Reel Market (France)
  • Cinema on the Bayou
  • Tacoma Film Festival
  • West Sound Film Festival
  • Make Art Not Fear (Portugal)
  • Berlin Revolution
  • Brighton Rocks
Distribution Information
  • Rustin Thompson
Director Biography - Rustin Thompson

https://rustinthompson.com/about/

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Director Statement

All my films begin with the power of the image. Narrative, meaning, impact, all emerge organically from images. Slow Revolution is not an agenda-driven, social justice film. It is intended as a fever dream, an act of contemplative curation of recent history. As the True/False film festival screening committee said, it is "a captivating insight into profound philosophical questions.”