The spirit of absence
I have long been fascinated by the power of absence. I hadn't known that this was one element that drew me towards Slow Cinema until...
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Category: Research
Waiting Time
January 9, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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The end of the year 2018 was, in France at least, a period in which the media focused on the subject of time. The quantity...
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Pre-order The Art(s) of Slow Cinema magazine now!
December 15, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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After months of work, the very first issue of The Art(s) of Slow Cinema magazine is now available for pre-order via tao films. It’s thanks...
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Landscape / Character
November 25, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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The end of the year proves to be busy, and it's not easy at the moment to sit down and watch a film. I hope...
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The next step – The Art(s) of Slow Cinema Journal
May 23, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It’s been several years that I dream of publishing my own journal. I was still a student when I began to think about pursuing this...
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Arresting trauma – Martti Helde’s In The Crosswinds (2014)
April 27, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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"On the night of 14 June 1941, more than 40,000 innocent people were deported from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The aim of this secret operation...
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The filmind in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Zerkalo
December 19, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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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...
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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...
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