How Can We Find Depth in Shorts
Exploring how the duration and pacing of stories have evolved, reflecting changes in technology, viewer preferences, and societal trends. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 03:14 Part 1. Pace and Engagement 05:15 Part 2. The Power of Slow Cinema 08:13 Part 3. Social Media and Storytelling Today 09:58 Part 4. Less is More 12:32 Part 5. Images Flowing in Time 15:51 Part 6. The Art of Concise Storytelling 19:25 Silent Room *** Follow Lofi Cinema:TikTok: @lofi.cinema Instagram: @loficinema_ #loficinema #videoessay *** Footage used: Electric Apex - The Evolution of Cinema in 1 Minute (1878 – 2017) Netflix - Love Death + Robots DancerOnFilm - Scenes from a Movie Theatre The Artist (2011) Michel Hazanavicius Kinolibrary - 1930s Film Studio, Film Processing and Editing Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal 11 Minutes of Bill Burr - Stand Up (Netflix) Hot Fuzz (2007) Edgar Wright Baby Driver (2017) Edgar Wright Love Me Tonight (1932) Rouben Mamoulian Alfonso Cuarón | BAFTA Screenwriter's Lecture Series The Hateful Eight (2015) Quentin Tarantino Transcendental Style Films: Haba-bi (1997) Takeshi Kitano Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Jim Jarmusch Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) Park Chan-wook Paul Schrader on Transcendental Style in Film | On Film | TIFF 2017 The Postman's White Nights' (2014) Andrei Konchalovsky Sonatine (1993) Takeshi Kitano A Man Escaped (1956) Robert Bresson Joint Security Area (2000) Park Chan-wook La Jetée (1962) Chris Marker Floating Weeds (1959) Yasujirō Ozu The Color of Pomegranates (1969) Sergei Parajanov Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976) Chantal Akerman Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) Corneliu Porumboiu Cafe Maddy - Why I cancel my date last minute The Square (2017) Ruben Östlund Barton Fink (1991) Coen Brothers Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) John Hughes Music used: Robert Charlebois - Tout écartilléKeinemusik - H (Highsnobiety) A Tribe Called Quest - Check The Rhime (Instrumental) Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal bsd.u - Blueberry A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario I MONSTER - The Blue Wrath Jonny Greenwood – Convergence Saib - Sakura Trees Zaho de Sagazan - Les dormantes Joint Security Area OST - Those Who Are Forgotten

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Tulung Podcast #102 - Week of May 24, 2026

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