Autoportrait en cinéaste / Ma mère rit (Chantal Akerman)
In the last fortnight or so, I have read two books by Chantal Akerman. One of them, Autoportrait en cinéaste, is, in fact, a sort of...
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Category: Books & Articles
Art and Therapy (Alain de Botton, John Armstrong, 2014)
March 28, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong had been on my list from the moment I saw it online. With my research...
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Book review: Contemporary art and time (2016)
March 14, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Towards the end of my PhD research, I noticed that quite a few interesting works in my area have been published by Presses Universitaires de...
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Wang Bing – A filmmaker in today’s China (2014)
October 7, 2016
by Nadin Mai
1 Comment
I quite like how much material there is in France about Chinese director Wang Bing. I had always thought that he was as invisible academically...
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New books on Pedro Costa & Béla Tarr
August 12, 2016
by Nadin Mai
1 Comment
The initial wave of I-want-to-be-the-first has subsided, and after quite a few not very good books on Slow Cinema or on slow-film directors, we're slowly...
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The aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz
January 19, 2016
by Nadin Mai
3 Comments
Now that the PhD has been awarded, I’m happy to make my thesis, the first coherent study of the films of Lav Diaz, available for...
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Slow Cinema, ed by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge (2015)
January 4, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I'm not sure where to start with this one. Not considering the content for a minute, the new and very first edited collection on Slow...
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(E)Motion in slow films
June 12, 2015
by Nadin Mai
1 Comment
A couple of days I ago, I came across a new article by Ira Jaffe, who wrote the, to me, unconvincing book Slow Movies (2014). In Slow...
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Default Setting: Bored
February 16, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Just last week I read Jakob Boer's interesting paper "As Slow As Possible: An Enquiry Into the Redeeming Power of Boredom for Slow Film Viewers"...
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Book Review: Das Innen im Außen – Bernhard Hetzenauer (2013)
January 8, 2015
by Nadin Mai
1 Comment
Bernhard Hentzenauer's book on Béla Tarr, Das Innen im Aussen: Béla Tarr, Jacques Lacan und der Blick, makes me glad that I'm a German native,...
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