Wang Bing – The walking eye (2021)
I wished it was me who had the idea for this brilliant title. Sadly, I only managed to use “the camera as eye” at some...
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Present Tense – Time and Duration in Contemporary Contemplative Cinema
April 30, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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As I’m recovering (slowly, very slowly) from the intense beginning of the year, which involved publishing a book, writing a book chapter for a Spanish-language...
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Human Condition(s) – NOW AVAILABLE
April 9, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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It is an enormous pleasure to announce that my monograph Human Condition(s) – An aesthetic if cinematic slowness is now available for purchase. I started...
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Notturno – Gianfranco Rosi (2020)
March 22, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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After the end credits of Gianfranco Rosi’s new film Notturno appeared on the screen, the blog post I had mentally written throughout the duration of...
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Village of Women – Tamara Stepanyan (2019)
March 10, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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In Wang Bing’s Three Sisters (2012), three young children are left to their own devices. The mother left the family to live with another man,...
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Dear Publishers
February 18, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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As I’m putting the finishing touches to my book Human Condition(s) – An aesthetic of slowness, 1990 – 2020, I’m mulling over what has brought...
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Human Condition(s) — Forthcoming book
February 10, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Some of you may remember that I received a wonderful offer back in 2019, in a world before corona. Before the world came to a...
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Memory Exercises — Paz Encina (2016)
February 1, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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A woman on a train with children. A dictatorship. 35 years. The control. And the exile. That’s the first image they left me with. Paraguay....
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Red Moon Tide – Lois Patino (2019)
January 6, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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The moon is a monster, it devours time. Rubio. A fisherman. He loved the sea, he loved the freedom when heading out with his boat....
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Year in Review 2020
December 7, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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A few years ago, I started to write a little summary of what the year in Slow Cinema was like. I liked to look back...
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