About

Long Pauses was begun in the fall of 2001 as a deliberate effort to put Denise Levertov’s advice into practice:

A line of peace might appear
if we restructured the sentence our lives are making,
revoked its reaffirmation of profit and power,
questioned our needs, allowed
long pauses . . .

Long Pauses is the personal website of Darren Hughes, a technology professional, freelance writer, and film programmer in Knoxville, TN. I’m the co-founder of The Public Cinema and the Artistic Director of Film Fest Knox (coming fall 2023).

Launched in 2001, Long Pauses was one of the first blogs dedicated primarily to international and art cinema. It now serves primarily as an archive of my writing and programming. I can also be found on Twitter and Letterboxd.

Site History

Long Pauses is a perpetual work-in-progress. Versions 1, 3, and 6 aren’t shown here either because the changes were all structural (the first inclusion of CSS, for example) or because they died on my hard drive, never quite making the leap from drawing board to web server.