Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy
I set up this blog in the autumn of 2012, at the start of my doctoral research. It's funny just how much the original subject...
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Category: Misc
Lav Diaz Retrospective in Manila
January 21, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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This is the first part of hopefully many that will accompany my journey through the organisation of a major retrospective of Lav Diaz’s works in his...
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Merry Xmas
December 23, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I wish you all a Merry Xmas and a joyful period of festive days. Remember to take everything slow. Use the festive days for some...
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Book on Lav Diaz – A self-publication model?
November 19, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Now that my time as a PhD student comes slowly, but at the sometime speedily to an end, I need and want to think about...
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Slow Art Cinema
October 6, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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This is a brief post to say that an article by me was published on the Slow Art Day blog. Some of you may remember...
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The Art(s) of Slow Cinema in Locarno
July 26, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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A brief post to say that I will be traveling to this year’s Locarno Film Festival. The line-up looks great, and I’m hoping to catch...
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In defense of a lack of craft
July 20, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I read a rather irritating article about Lav Diaz's Norte, written by Adrian Martin for the Sight & Sound magazine. His reading of the film...
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Slow Cinema on Tumblr
June 27, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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The Art(s) of Slow Cinema has made its snail way to Tumblr. This will not replace this website at all. Fear not! I keep returning...
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The invisible princes
March 11, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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When I watched Lav Diaz's Death in the Land of Encantos again, I had a nice encounter with a prince, the prince of the black dwarfs...
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Alimuom – Benjamin Agusan (poetry)
March 6, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Benjamin Agusan is a fictional poet in Lav Diaz’s Death in the Land of Encantos (2007). A great poet on the verge of losing his sanity. He...
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