Default Setting: Bored
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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Category: Books & Articles
Book Review: Das Innen im Außen – Bernhard Hetzenauer (2013)
January 8, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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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Review: On Slowness – Lutz Koepnick (2014)
December 18, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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The contemporary hype around slowness in all its forms has filled shelves in bookstores for several years now. Most of these books are a kind...
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The films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation – Andrew Horton (1997)
September 9, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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When I was still in primary school, at the sweet age of nine, and had no idea that I would become a slow fanatic one...
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Slow Movies, Countering the Cinema of Action – Ira Jaffe (2014)
June 12, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I reviewed Song Hwee Lim's book on Slow Cinema and the films of Tsai Ming-liang earlier, and called Lim's book the first appropriate book on...
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Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness – Song Hwee Lim (2014)
June 3, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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In 2003, Michel Ciment coined the term "a cinema of slowness." A year later, Jonathan Romney coined the now popular term "Slow Cinema." It's quite...
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Review: Béla Tarr, The Time After – Jacques Rancière
May 23, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed András Bálint Kovács' book The Cinema of Béla Tarr (2013), which turned out to be a disappointment. Jacques...
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Review: The Cinema of Béla Tarr – András Bálint Kovács
April 19, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Kovács' book is not the first book on Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Jacques Rancière has equally published a book, though rather slim, about Tarr, titled...
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