August 1–31, 2025
e-flux Film is pleased to present In Praise of Slowness (2023) by Hicham Gardaf as the August 2025 edition of our online series Staff Picks.
Gardaf’s film captures Tangier’s bleach vendors at a critical moment, as their trade—marked by distinctive vocal chants and measured routines—is increasingly marginalized by rapid urbanization and industrial growth. Through careful attention to these everyday rhythms and gestures, Gardaf foregrounds slowness as an embodied form of resistance to capitalist acceleration.
In Praise of Slowness is streaming on e-flux Film from August 1–31, 2025. Read more and watch here.
Hicham Gardaf (b. in Tangier, Morocco) works across photography and moving image, often engaging with ideas of time, place, and transformation. He is drawn to sites that carry social or spatial tension, such as landscapes shaped by displacement, urbanization, or quiet forms of resistance. Through slow, observational processes, he explores how environments reflect broader political and temporal conditions. Gardaf approaches these mediums not only as tools for documentation but as spaces for speculation, perception, and re-interpretation. His practice is concerned with what images hold and what they fail to reveal, how they shape memory, suggest presence or absence, and shift meaning over time. Recent screenings and exhibitions include the 74th Berlinale in Berlin, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, Frac MÉCA in Bordeaux, MACAAL in Marrakech, and Fondazione MAST in Bologna.
Staff Picks is a streaming series on e-flux Film of recommended videos designed to disrupt the monotony of an algorithm. Before the end times of big data, we used to discover suggested content along dusty shelves in video rental stores, where Post-it notes scribbled by shift workers implored us to experience the same movies that made them guffaw, scream, or weep. Sometimes the content bored us, sometimes it overwhelmed us, and sometimes, as if by magic, it was just right. e-flux invites you to relive this rental store mode of perusal, with personalized picks curated through judgment that does not take into consideration your viewing history.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
