Movie that will take you 35 days and 17 hours to watch comes with very important message from directors

I don’t know about you, but if I see that a movie is going to last at least three hours, I avoid it completely. Heck, even if it’s over two-and-a-half, I’ll have to seriously think about if I’m going to be able to pay attention for that long.

Killers of the Flower Moon? Great, but I’d spread it over a few days.

But while you might think I’m being dramatic, you’ll surely agree that the thought of a film taking 35 days and 17 hours to watch (without breaks) is essentially a nightmare.

And while that may sound completely made up or like some form of torture, there really is one piece of art lasting that long and it comes with a very important message from the directors.

Sounds like a barrel of laughs. (Logistics Art Project)

Logistics was completed back in 2012 and is said to be the world’s longest ever movie at a whopping 857 hours.

Yet despite being so long, it has one of the smallest crews with just two people creating, filming and editing it.

Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson came up with the idea back in 2008 and it’s essentially all about consumerism.

According to Logistics’ official website, it’s about ‘time and consumption’ as the Swedish artists send a message through the days and days of film.

“It brings to the fore what is often forgotten in our digital, ostensibly fast-paced world: the slow, physical freight transportation that underpins our economic reality," it adds.

It’s said that the creators chose the ‘anonymous’ item of a pedometer and decided to research the path it took from where it was first made to where it was purchased at a shop in Sweden.

Andersson and Magnusson recreated this whole journey and filmed the whole thing, so there’s a huge chunk of it just on the big freight ship.

The pair were sending a message about consumerism. (Logistics Art Project)

They decided the only way to really get their message across was to have the whopper journey in real time but were also fascinated at the idea of looking backwards.

So the ‘durational cinema’ project plays out in reverse, helping to make viewers think about where the things they purchase are actually made.

There isn’t really a simple way to go about watching the full Logistics now, but there’s a shorter, edited version on YouTube.

It features a series of two-minute clips from each day of the journey that were chosen by Andersson and Magnusson, compiled together to condense the flick. And let’s be honest 72 minutes is much more digestible in one go.

It’s hard to legitimise the reviews though, as people write on Letterboxd that the full movie ‘was kind of slow’ or is a ‘bit long innit’.