Comparisons of slow cinemas: narrativity (see Deleuze [Time-Image](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_2:_The_Time-Image) compare with [_Cinema 1: The Movement-Image_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_1:_The_Movement_Image)) “Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images | JSTOR.” Accessed July 27, 2026. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2jwb.23?seq=1](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2jwb.23?seq=1). - opsigns and sonsigns - hyalosigns (or crystal-images) - chronosigns - noosigns - lectosigns De Luca, Tiago, and Nuno Barradas Jorge. _Slow Cinema_. Traditions in World Cinema. University Press, 2016. Flanagan, Matthew. “‘Slow Cinema’: Temporality and Style in Contemporary Art and Experimental Film.” Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. [https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/articles/thesis/_Slow_Cinema_Temporality_and_Style_in_Contemporary_Art_and_Experimental_Film/29692577/1](https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/articles/thesis/_Slow_Cinema_Temporality_and_Style_in_Contemporary_Art_and_Experimental_Film/29692577/1). Perry, Alex Ross. “Paul Schrader: Deliberate Boredom in the Church of Cinema.” _Cinema Scope_, March 17, 2018. [https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-magazine/paul-schrader-deliberate-boredom-in-the-church-of-cinema/](https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-magazine/paul-schrader-deliberate-boredom-in-the-church-of-cinema/). On the "Tarkovsky Ring" “As cinema moves away from narrative, at some point it has to pass through the “Tarkovsky Ring.” And once it passes through the Tarkovsky Ring, it leaves the world of audiences and enters the world of museums and festivals...” (Perry, 2018) [Abbas Kiarostami](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Kiarostami) [Andrei Tarkovsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky) [Apichatpong Weerasethakul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apichatpong_Weerasethakul) [Béla Tarr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Tarr) [Bi Gan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi_Gan_\(film_director\)) [Chantal Akerman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Akerman) [Claire Denis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Denis) [Cyril Schäublin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Sch%C3%A4ublin) [Jia Zhangke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_Zhangke) [Kelly Reichardt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Reichardt "Kelly Reichardt") [Theo Angelopoulos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Angelopoulos) [Yasujirō Ozu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu)