it's very important to make the film a real psychological process. (Béla Tarr)
Films

Burial – Emilija Škarnulytė (2022)

May 11, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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When I saw Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s superb documentary Homo Sapiens, I reflected upon the legacy we, Homo sapiens, would leave behind. Our legacy isn’t as magnificent...
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Misc

Time

April 19, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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It's been a bit quiet here recently, primarily because I was (and still am) in the process of working on a very personal and painful...
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Films

Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi (2022)

February 8, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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It’s been quiet around Iran for many weeks now. When the young Mahsa Amin died at the hands of the country’s moral police, the support...
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Misc

Searching

February 3, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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It’s interesting to see how things develop. In my last post, I spoke about resonance. A lot of it was based on Hartmut Rosa’s book...
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Misc Research

Resonance

January 3, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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I have often been asked how I got interested in Slow Cinema, how I was able to distinguish slow films from other arthouse films. I...
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Films Misc

Year in Review 2022

December 22, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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The last time I published a post on this blog was to inform you all about a rather unpleasant development in my mind. I’m using...
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Uncategorised

Burnout

October 31, 2022
by Nadin Mai
10 Comments
I don’t quite know how to start this post. Only two weeks ago, I shipped the first copies of The Art(s) of Slow Cinema – The 10th...
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