The spirit of absence
I have long been fascinated by the power of absence. I hadn't known that this was one element that drew me towards Slow Cinema until...
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Tag: absence
An Elephant Sitting Still – Hu Bo (2018)
January 30, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There are good films. There are bad films. There are exciting films, awesome films, overwhelming films. There are also underwhelming films, those that are total...
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Kaili Blues – Bi Gan (2015)
January 24, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It is impossible to retain a past thought, to seize a future thought, and even to hold onto a present thought. There couldn't be a...
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Le vrai film est ailleurs – Mark John Ostrowski (2018)
November 5, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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A curious title, a provocative message from director John Mark Ostrowski, whose work I came across for the first time during my work on tao...
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Pripyat – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1999)
August 9, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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A woman is walking through a dead landscape. Nature has taken over what Man has built. It's wilderness we see. "These wild apples grew after...
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Shoah – Claude Lanzmann (1985)
July 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It is clear to me that Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) would never make it into a Slow Cinema list. Perhaps, it shouldn't be. Perhaps, it should...
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I don’t want to sleep alone – Tsai Ming-liang (2006)
June 25, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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I discovered Tsai Ming-liang's films early on in my research into Slow Cinema, or even well before I started my PhD. The director from Taiwan...
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Man With No Name – Wang Bing (2010)
May 14, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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Anonymity and intimacy - these two characteristics work hand in hand in Wang Bing's Man With No Name (2010), which is a mere glimpse of the...
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Visitor – Sebastian Cordes (2018)
March 12, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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“It is said that man has always wandered. Out of need or curiosity, across deserts and oceans.” This is how the new feature film by...
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The art of emptiness – Itzhak Goldberg (ed, 2017)
January 28, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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After a rather long break from writing due to health reasons, I'm trying to embark on finally writing something about that book I bought last...
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