aesthetics – Page 3 – The Arts of (Slow) Cinema

Sixty Spanish Cigarettes – Mark John Ostrowski (2015)

September 18, 2015

by Nadin Mai

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There is something sublimely beautiful about Mark John Ostrowski's film Sixty Spanish Cigarettes (2015). Fifteen minutes into the film, an extreme long shot captures the...

Films

Cemetery of Splendour – Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2015)

September 6, 2015

by Nadin Mai

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I need to make a general observation about Apichatpong Weerasethakul first before I go into detail about his new (and wonderful) film Cemetery of Splendour (2015),...

Films

The Royal Road – Jenni Olson (2014)

August 30, 2015

by Nadin Mai

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How I had missed this fight inside my head of what is slow and what isn't. Jenni Olson's deeply personal, moving and engaging film The Royal...

Research

The slow long-take?

August 4, 2015

by Nadin Mai

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If you have been following this blog from the beginning, you may have noticed that I regularly return to the issue of the long-take and...

Films

Transatlantique – Félix Dufour-Laperrière (2014)

July 16, 2015

by Nadin Mai

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I love slow films for the very good reason that they stay with you, whether they're films about happy chaps (which is hardly ever the...

Books & Articles Research

(E)Motion in slow films

June 12, 2015

by Nadin Mai

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A couple of days I ago, I came across a new article by Ira Jaffe, who wrote the, to me, unconvincing book Slow Movies (2014). In Slow...

Interviews

Interview with Suranga Katugampala (2015)

May 21, 2015

by Nadin Mai

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A couple weeks ago, I posted a few comments about a short film I was sent through my Facebook page. Son of the lovely capitalism by...

Films

No No Sleep – Tsai Ming-liang (2015)

May 17, 2015

by Nadin Mai

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Semi-retired filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang continues to impress with his Walker series, of which the seventh instalment has popped up on YouTube. It is astonishing that even...

Films