Books & Articles Slow Movies, Countering the Cinema of Action – Ira Jaffe (2014) June 12, 2014 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments I reviewed Song Hwee Lim's book on Slow Cinema and the films of Tsai Ming-liang earlier, and called Lim's book the first appropriate book on... Read More
Research Mourning Cinema May 16, 2014 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments For parts of my work on Lav Diaz's Melancholia, I read Richard Armstrong's Mourning Films (2012). It wasn't quite as helpful as I thought for... Read More
Films Day 24 – Surprise (me) December 24, 2013 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment I finish this year’s advent calendar with a self-experiment in slow-filmmaking. It’s one thing to watch slow films all the time. But as I was... Read More
Films Day 13 – Mother and Son (Sokurov) December 13, 2013 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment Another one of my favourites. And a classic, I suppose. Russian director Sokurov is more than just a slow-film director, though. In fact, I don't... Read More