''Baa Baa Land'' is a 2017

slow cinema Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema characterised by a style that is minimalist, observational, and with little or no narrative, and which typically emphasizes long takes.Steven RoseTwo Years At Sea: little happens, nothing is explained ''The Gua ...

film produced by meditation software company Calm featuring eight hours of footage of sheep standing in a field. The idea for the film was conceived by producer Peter Freedman, and was directed, shot and edited by art film director Garth Thomas. Each shot lasts between 30 minutes to over an hour. It was filmed at the Layer Marney lamb and sheep farm near Tiptree in

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, England, and premiered at the Prince Charles Cinema in London's West End on September 27, 2017. The film is an example of "

", a technique that focuses on long takes, minimalism, and often very little to no narrative or dialogue. The film has no plot nor any human

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

dialogue Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is c ...

narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller (ge ...

, and was described as the "dullest movie ever made" by Freedman. It is intended to put viewers to sleep, and was described by producer Alex Tew, a co-founder of Calm along with producer

Michael Acton Smith Michael Acton Smith OBE (born 1974) is the current co-CEO and co-Founder of Calm, a meditation space company. He is also the founder of Firebox.com, and founder and chairman of children's entertainment company Mind Candy – the creators of ...

, as "better than any sleeping pill" and "the ultimate insomnia cure". ''Baa Baa Land'''s length of eight hours has led some to call it the nineteenth longest film of all time, the same length as

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's 1967 film '' The Imitation of Christ'' and five minutes shorter than ''

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''.

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* {{IMDb title, 7156478, Baa Baa Land 2017 films 2010s avant-garde and experimental films Films about sheep British documentary films 2017 documentary films Films without speech British avant-garde and experimental films 2010s British films