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

Tsai Ming-liang – Walker

December 26, 2012
by Nadin Mai
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After films such as I don’t want to sleep alone, The Wayward Cloud, and What Time is it there? [I apologise for this trailer, it’s the only one...
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Research

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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Literature Research

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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Research

Why painting?

November 18, 2012
by Nadin Mai
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In the previous blog entry, I mentioned my research direction with regards to a paper I will present in December. In my thesis, I will...
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