WATCH: Is this the dullest movie ever made?

An eight-hour slow-motion film with no plot, dialogue or actors has unveiled its trailer and will premier this September.

The American-financed, British-made film is an example of “Slow Cinema”, a genre of art films known for long takes, slow pace and lack of action or narrative.

“It’s better than any sleeping pill – the ultimate insomnia cure”, said Alex Tew, Baa Baa Land’s executive producer and co-founder of Calm.

Is it also the dullest movie ever made? “We think so”, said Peter Freedman, its producer. “We hope that audiences will too.”

Baa Baa Land has no car-chases, explosions or star names. All it has is sheep and fields.

Long, loving takes – some up to an hour long – show the sheep in question, standing around in fields, doing very little.

Nothing happens … for eight hours.

Apart from some music over the film’s credits, the only soundtrack is the sound of sheep making. The sort of noises that lend the film its name.

Baa Baa Land is no relation to the recent Hollywood hit, La La Land. Its poster, however, does pay an affectionate tribute to La La Land’s and to a line associated with the latter, declaring, “Here’s to the ones who dream … of sheep”.

“No sheep were harmed – or consulted – in the making of this film,” states the film’s credits.

Baa Baa Land’s length of eight hours may put off some but it makes the film only the nineteenth longest film of all time – five minutes shorter than Empire, Warhol’s 1964 film, and the same length as his 1967 work, The Imitation of Christ.

The longest movie ever made is Logistics, a Swedish experiential art film made in 2012, and lasting 857 hours or 35 days and 17 hours.

Baa Baa Land’s rivals for the title of the dullest film ever made include Paint Drying, a 10.5 hour movie about drying paint, classified last year by the British Board of Film Censors as “suitable for all”.

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