Essay
Slowness as Method
How Sofia Marchetti's moving image teaches the eye to doubt.
5 Jul 2026 · Fardokht Gorouhi · Lyon, January 2026 · 1 min read
Marchetti's videos barely move. A shadow lengthens; light shifts by a degree. The drama is in your own attention learning to notice.
Against the cut
Where most moving image accelerates, she decelerates until the ordinary turns strange — a discipline closer to looking at a painting than watching a film.
I slow the image until the eye begins to doubt what it knows.