it's very important to make the film a real psychological process. (Béla Tarr)
Films 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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Literature Research

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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Research

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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Research

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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Films

Diary of a Young Boy

February 2, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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This is the title of Tsai Ming-liang’s new film. There isn’t a lot of information out there. What I could find was that the film...
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Literature Research

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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Films

Mekong Hotel @ Glasgow Film Festival

January 20, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest (short) film Mekong Hotel (extract) will be screened at the Glasgow Film Festival in February. The screening will be preceded by Walker....
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Literature Research

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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Films

Tsai Ming-Liang – Visage (2009)

January 12, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Let us recall some of the characteristics that are usually associated with Slow Cinema; unknown actors / actresses, tendency to frame characters in medium or...
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