11/11/2019
Dear all,
it is with immense sadness that we have decided to take a creative pause. On 1 January 2017, tao films, the first VoD platform to focus entirely on Slow Cinema, went online and many of you have seen our selection of wonderful films from around the world.
tao films has never been a company, but a project of passion run by a mere two people. The selection process, the preparation of new additions, the advertising - all of this became too much to handle. The platform developed into a real home for directors who were seeking to find an audience. This is the greatest gift we could have received in exchange for our work, and we'd like to thank every single one of our directors for their trust, their patience and their love.
tao films needs to restructure itself in order to continue its work. With our curator Nadin Mai writing her first book (on Slow Cinema, of course), her work for The Art(s) of Slow Cinema and her joining the Slow Film Festival team, plus the constraints of having to earn money to pay the bills, the lack of free time needed to continue to create the platform has put the breaks on tao for now.
The platform will go into a hiatus on 1 January 2020 and you will have time until then to see all the films you haven't seen yet. We will take the year 2020 to restructure and rethink as to how we can reconcile the increased demand for film viewing and uploads, and the severe lack of time we have for the curation of the platform.
That said, tao films will return. It's not the end of something, but the beginning of a pause in order to create a wonderful and stable platform. We're here to stay, but we need to prepare our takeover of the world 😎
https://tao-films.com
