Welcome to the Slow Art Movement 2026

Dear filmmakers,

2026 is here!

And if you’re feeling what many of us are feeling, the speed, the noise, the constant “keep up", you’re not alone.

This year, we’re choosing something quieter. More human. More sustainable.

We’re choosing Slow Art Movement!

That’s why ikonoTV is opening the Slow Art Movement Open Call, in partnership with CHEYNI.

If you make films that breathe, frames that linger, moments that expand, 
we’d love to see your work. Every month, we will highlight the Artist of the Month.

CHEYNI is a festival-first streaming and submissions platform, built to connect filmmakers with festivals, showcase selected work, and reward audiences who watch with intention. Together, we’re creating a space where contemplative cinema can meet the people who actually want to stay with it.

You are invited to take part all year long, not as an aesthetic, but as wellbeing, as craft, as a form of radical attention.

Because time is not a race, it is a canvas to make people feel.

Slow Art is not passive, it is radical attention.

With care and the ikono team and I wish you an amazing creative 2026!

Elizabeth Markevitch
Founder & CEO