2009 Festival on video
Art student Zelda Moehring brought her video camera and ‘slow’ vision to the first Slow Down London festival in April-May 09, documenting numerous events and discussions. You can watch her 10-minute feature, along with footage of individual events.
Zelda writes:
Following this exciting ten-day Festival through a lens, this ten-minute film documents the Slow Down London Festival 2009. It grasps the essential notion that as a collective we are finding ourselves in a time – especially in relation to the economic crisis and climate change – where alternative ways of living are vital to explore.
The Slow Down London Festival offers debates about time, speed, travel, food, craft, mediation, gardening, yoga, culture and history. It is trying to give a space to place ourselves now, in real time, to inspire the idea that living more slowly is not that difficult. With the balance in each step, and each decision we make, we can create a more sustainable present.
Watch the Slow Down London Documentary
It is Saturday evening at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Carl Honoré invites us to the revolutionary idea of SLOW. Carl Honoré is the author of In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is challenging the Cult of Speed and explores how we live in a speedocholic culture.
Considering the economic crisis that we are faced with today, and our well-known stress-factors, the question arises if we are ready to slow down? If we are ready to re-evaluate the meaning of time in relation to our lives and if there are alternatives to this culture of speed? Carl Honoré encourages us to see that Slow is for every one, that Slow is about doing things at the right speed and that being in fast-forward mode eventually only does us harm.
Watch Slow as a State of Mind
Dan Kieran, Ian Vince and Prasanth Visweswaran are living examples how it is possible to travel really sloooowly. They made an exciting road trip across the UK by travelling in a 1958 electric milk float. This little adventure brings to light how magnificent slow travel can be when we take it slowly.
STOP! Excuse me please, but why are you walking so fast? Standing outside the bookstore Foyles at Charring Cross Road, Bruno Contigiani director of the Italian organisation The Art of Slow Living is handing out speeding tickets to people who are walking at a speed of lightning. Along with the tickets Bruno hands out 14 ‘Slowmandments’, inspiring people to make a little change in their daily routine, and maybe to bring more happiness to life.
For more footage visit Zelda’s YouTube page
Image by Liz Poirier
