Dead Slow Ahead – Mauro Herce (2015)
I wonder whether the title of Mauro Herce's film is the most fitting of any slow film I have seen. I don't think you can...
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Tag: aesthetics
Ta’ang – Wang Bing (2016)
September 2, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I'm on a Wang Bing roll at the moment. I have finally found the time to see his work, and all kinds of things run...
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New books on Pedro Costa & Béla Tarr
August 12, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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The initial wave of I-want-to-be-the-first has subsided, and after quite a few not very good books on Slow Cinema or on slow-film directors, we're slowly...
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Là-bas (Chantal Akerman, 2006)
August 5, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Là-bas. Down there. Down there has many meanings in this film of Chantal Akerman, her first, last and only film set in Israel. Down there...
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Centaur – Aleksandra Niemczyk (2016)
July 13, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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!!! This film is now available on tao films until 30 March 2017 !!! I rarely come across a film, which stuns me through its...
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Hele sa hiwagang hapis – Lav Diaz (2016)
February 18, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Well, he did it again, and Lav Diaz's Berlinale entry Hele sa hiwagang hapis is, at the same time, his longest film since his nine-hour...
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8 Questions for Sebastian Cordes
December 21, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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His poetic observation A place called Lloyd (2015) made Danish director Sebastian Cordes a slow-film director to look out for in future. I had a brief...
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Malaventura – Michel Lipkes (2011)
November 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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The last day in the life of an elderly man - this is the entire premise of Michel Lipkes' wonderful debut feature. Once more, I...
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D’Est – Chantal Akerman (1993)
October 29, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Chantal Akerman's D'est is a great example of Slow Cinema, and for those who do not feel prepared to start with eight hours Lav Diaz,...
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Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy
October 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I set up this blog in the autumn of 2012, at the start of my doctoral research. It's funny just how much the original subject...
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