Research Is Lav Diaz is literati? February 19, 2014 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment This post wraps up my brief excursion to the far-away lands of China, and my somewhat exotic reading of Slow Cinema. What remains is one... Read More
Research Slow Cinema and Chinese Painting V February 14, 2014 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment The second last feature I would like to mention is the use of monochrome aesthetics. It is something that cannot be applied to Slow Cinema... Read More
Research Slow Cinema and Chinese Painting IV February 6, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments I want to continue with the slow and painterly journey today. You can find the previous three parts here, here and here Read More
Research Slow Cinema and Chinese Painting III January 21, 2014 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments Time to go into more detail about Slow Cinema and Chinese painting. You can find Part 1 and 2 here and here. I start with... Read More
Research Slow Cinema and Chinese Painting II January 12, 2014 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments Last week I began to point to some research I have done last year. Today I want to go into a bit more detail about... Read More
Research Slow Cinema and Chinese Painting I January 8, 2014 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments The results of research into this area will come in parts over the next two or three weeks as it would otherwise be too long... Read More
Films Misc Research Happy Slow Year 2014 January 2, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments Here it is, the New Year. I hope you all had a lovely Hogmanay and New Year’s day in your respective countries around the world.... Read More
Films Research Third (Slow) Cinema October 27, 2013 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment In my last post, I hinted at the peculiar phenomenon that quite a substantial amount of slow films are made in third world countries, or... Read More
Films Research The River Used to be a Man October 19, 2013 by Nadin Mai No Comments It's been a while that I watched a good slow film. My head rarely thinks ouside Lav Diaz's films at the moment. I'm trying to... Read More
Research Poetic Cinema September 19, 2013 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment I have recently watched Jia Zhang-ke's wonderful and impressive piece I Wish I Knew (2010), and a thought popped into my head. First of all,... Read More