The Ethereal Melancholy Of Seeing Horses In The Cold
Things have been slow lately. I’ve been busy writing proposals and papers. Hence, there isn’t anything new or groundbreaking I have to offer this week....
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Category: Research
The Effects of Music and Dialogue
February 24, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Yesterday’s screening of Apichatpong’s Mekong Hotel in Glasgow made it obvious to me how problematic the term Slow Cinema is. The name Apichatpong Weerasethakul appears almost...
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Slow Cinema at the Museum!?
February 22, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Slow Cinema is often, wrongly, seen in terms of boredom. For me, this has two reasons. The first one is the term itself. In an...
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A matter of kinetics
February 17, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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I’ve mentioned in an earlier post that I intend to draw parallels between Slow Cinema and the static arts. I also established a link between...
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What is Slow Cinema 2.0
February 12, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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During my research I have come across a number of slow film festivals, which implied that Slow Cinema is not as marginal as sometimes thought....
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Some (Futurist) Thoughts
February 3, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Those who read this blog regularly, or those who know me personally, are aware of my hostility towards the opposition of Slow Cinema to Hollywood,...
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The spirit of plastic arts
January 25, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Le cinéma incorpore le temps à l’espace. Mieux. Le temps, par lui, devient réellement une dimension de l’espace. (Cinema incorporates time to space. Through this,...
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No Slow, No Cinema
January 20, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Slow films seem to be simple at first sight, but studying them is difficult. Given that you make a real attempt at it without falling...
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What is Slow Cinema?
December 20, 2012
by Nadin Mai
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No, I do not undertake a heroic attempt of defining it. Slow Cinema is based on too many relative factors that, in fact, defy a...
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Academic Standstill
December 19, 2012
by Nadin Mai
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“[W]hat has been peculiar about this recuperation of art’s relation to film is that, in terms of the ‘film’ or ‘cinema’ part of the equation,...
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