Books & Articles Autoportrait en cinéaste / Ma mère rit (Chantal Akerman) April 4, 2017 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment 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... Read More
Books & Articles Art and Therapy (Alain de Botton, John Armstrong, 2014) March 28, 2017 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments 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... Read More
Books & Articles Book review: Contemporary art and time (2016) March 14, 2017 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments 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... Read More
Books & Articles 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... Read More
Books & Articles 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... Read More
Books & Articles Films Literature 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... Read More
Books & Articles Slow Cinema, ed by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge (2015) January 4, 2016 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments 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... Read More
Books & Articles Research (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... Read More
Books & Articles Research Default Setting: Bored February 16, 2015 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments 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"... Read More
Books & Articles 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,... Read More