For parts of my work on Lav Diaz's Melancholia, I read Richard Armstrong's Mourning Films (2012). It wasn't quite as helpful as I thought for the actual content of my chapter, but there was something else that popped up while reading the conclusion of the book, namely the question whether Slow Cinema is Mourning Cinema. At least in part. I'm aware that not all slow films are rather depressing. Albert Serra, for instance, is the comedian amongst slow-film directors, so he wouldn't fit into this "new" category I have in . . .

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