Larry Kardish - Slow Run

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Slow Run is a raw, lyrical portrait of New York City as seen through the eyes of a young Canadian exile. The filmmaker, Larry Kardish, at 23 years old, had made his first and only film as a candid love letter to the city, a litany of fascinations and complaints. Kardish blends dreamlike street photography, intimate portraiture, and a rhapsodic monologue performed by the filmmaker's fictional surrogate, a young Canadian ex-pat (Saul Rubinek in his first film role). The narration accounts the lives and relationships of a group of young Bohemians, and unfolds in parallel to the imagery rather than in dialogue with it, creating a tension between voice and vision, presence and distance.

When Slow Run was released, Jonas Mekas asked, "is Larry Kardish a lyrical realist?" It is a film of such contraditions: romantic and disenchanted, spontaneous and composed. Slow Run captures a fleeting moment in timeNew York in its grand beauty, as seen by an alien.

First pressing, limited edition of 1000.

1968 / 80 minutes / b&w / 1.33:1 AR

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • A new digital restoration approved by filmmaker Larry Kardish
  • From Sandy Hill to Ottawa, a new interview with Larry Kardish
  • Blind Alleys: Slow Run and the Tropic of Manhattan, a video essay by Stephen Broomer
  • Liner notes by poet and filmmaker David Spittle
  • English subtitles

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Price: 

35 CAD

Publisher: 

Publishing date: 

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Runtime: 

80 min

Discs: 

1

Language: 

English

Subtitles: 

English

Region: 

Multizone

Resolution: 

1080p

Aspect ratio: 

4:3

Colour: 

B&W

Sound: 

Sound