Research Death Time April 2, 2015 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments Oh yes, a cheery title for this blog post. I apologise. But this only comes because of an email I received from one of my... Read More
Research André Bazin 2.0 March 6, 2015 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment This post may be a bit of a rumble rather than a coherent line of thought. But I want to jot down a couple of... 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
Research The weight of time October 20, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments If you study Slow Cinema, or time in film in more general terms, you cannot avoid reading Mary Ann Doane's The Emergence of Cinematic Time... Read More
Research Between Suspense and Time Terror September 23, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments As a result of the paper I gave at the University of Stirling at the beginning of the month, I looked more into aspects of... Read More
Films Research The different slowness in Evolution of a Filipino Family July 28, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments After my initial thoughts on Lav Diaz's Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004), I am now in the position to say a bit more about it,... Read More
Research For a new cinema June 30, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments In one way of another, you may have heard of Alain Robbe-Grillet's now rather famous book For a New Novel, which was published in its... Read More
Research Mourning Cinema May 16, 2014 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments For parts of my work on Lav Diaz's Melancholia, I read Richard Armstrong's Mourning Films (2012). It wasn't quite as helpful as I thought for... Read More
Research The (in)significance of dialogue April 3, 2014 by Nadin Mai 6 Comments While adding a few paragraphs to my chapter on Lav Diaz's Death in the Land of Encantos (2007), it occurred to me that for some slow... Read More
Films Misc Research The invisible princes March 11, 2014 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments 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... Read More