Category: Research

What follows are bits and pieces from an article I drafted six years ago about the Andrei Tarkovsky’s Zerkalo and Daniel Frampton’s filmind. At the time, I...

Research

Slow reconciliation with nature

December 1, 2017

by Nadin Mai

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This morning, I left the house at 8 o’clock. I went to a bridge that is close to my flat and that overlooks the canal...

Research

Straub-Huillet: what is film?

July 11, 2017

by Nadin Mai

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Thanks to a very good and impressive collection of DVDs in my local library/cultural centre, I had the chance to discover the works of Jean-Marie...

Misc Research

Waiting

July 6, 2017

by Nadin Mai

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What does it mean to wait? What does “waiting” mean nowadays when everyone seems to be always, eternally busy? Are we still waiting, or have...

Books & Articles Research

Film Spectatorship

June 9, 2017

by Nadin Mai

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Something that has always fascinated me is film spectatorship in regards to Slow Cinema. While film spectatorship as a subject isn’t entirely absent from research,...

Misc Research

The nocturnal and the slow

April 30, 2017

by Nadin Mai

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Béla Tarr’s The Man from London (2007) impressed me with its images that had been shot at night. The almost complete blackness of the night, seen...

Research

The Multisensory Film Experience

January 5, 2017

by Nadin Mai

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If there is one thing that is visible in my research of the last three to four years, then it is my interest in why...

Research

Slow Cinema and Cultural Memory

November 18, 2016

by Nadin Mai

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In a previous post I mentioned my own personal experience with slow films in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder. Given the comments I had...