4) Answer these questions: 1) Why did Rune Moklebyust and his team decide to make their first long programme? 2) What reasons can explain the popularity of Slow TV? 3) What are the similarities between the film Sleep and Slow TV?
- They decided to make it because it was the 100th anniversary of the railway, and they wanted to show documentaries about it. Someone suggested filming the whole train journey.
- Slow TV is relaxing in a stressful, fast world. It changes slowly, helps viewers feel in contact with nature and offers a kind of reality television without editing. It also satisfies people’s curiosity about ordinary real-life events.
- Both the film Sleep and Slow TV show real events very slowly and with little or no editing. In Sleep, the poet John Giorno sleeps for six hours, while Slow TV films events such as journeys, fires and fishing for many hours.