The art of cinema has long surpassed the two-hour frames we are accustomed to, moving into a different dimension.
Medianews.az, citing Lent.az, reports that the Swedish production "Logistics," currently considered the longest film in history, sets a record with a total duration of 857 hours, or 35 days, of continuous screening. This extraordinary work presents to the viewer, in real time, the journey of an ordinary pedometer device from a store in Stockholm to a factory in China.
Among other examples that overturn the concept of time are the 10-day "Modern Times Forever," which shows the decay of a building in Helsinki over ten years, and the 8.5-day "Cinématon," consisting of human portraits filmed over 30 years. These works, which lack a classic storyline, aim to make the audience feel the flow of time rather than tell a story.
According to film scholars, such projects are a kind of experiment on human time perception. These films are not designed to be watched from start to finish, but to be observed in certain fragments. They reveal how a person's sense of duration and continuity changes when the rapid editing techniques we are accustomed to are removed.