The Art(s) of Slow Cinema

Present Tense – Time and Duration in Contemporary Contemplative Cinema

April 30, 2021

by Nadin Mai

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As I’m recovering (slowly, very slowly) from the intense beginning of the year, which involved publishing a book, writing a book chapter for a Spanish-language...

Human Condition(s) – NOW AVAILABLE

April 9, 2021

by Nadin Mai

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It is an enormous pleasure to announce that my monograph Human Condition(s) – An aesthetic if cinematic slowness is now available for purchase. I started...

Books & Articles

Avoir le temps – Pascal Chabot (2021)

October 13, 2021

by Nadin Mai

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Especially since the widespread use of smartphones and social media, life feels extremely fast. Notifications from all kind of apps take over our phone screen,...

Films

Chronicle of Space — Akshay Indikar (2020)

September 27, 2021

by Nadin Mai

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Heavy rain. Thunder. Night. A dark, threatening night, which foreshadows what is to come. Yes, I’m back once more, back on the vast subcontinent that...

Films

A rifle and a bag — Arya Rothe, Cristina Hanes & Isabella Rinaldi (2020)

September 22, 2021

by Nadin Mai

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After an excursion to the Tamil region of India thanks to P.S. Vinothraj’s Pebbles (2021), I travelled further north this time to explore the life...

Films

Pebbles – P.S. Vinothraj (2021)

September 17, 2021

by Nadin Mai

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Blue skies. A tree branch blows ever so slightly in the wind. It’s peaceful and quiet. A bird lands on the branch and the scenery...

Films

I have not been afraid of going blind for a long time – Yannick Mosimann (2021)

September 9, 2021

by Nadin Mai

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“That night the blind man dreamt that he was blind.” (José Saramago – Blindness) In José Saramago’s 1995 novel Blindness, a strange, unexplained blindness befalls...

Films