Bela Tarr – Page 5 – The Arts of (Slow) Cinema

Review: The Cinema of Béla Tarr – András Bálint Kovács

April 19, 2014

by Nadin Mai

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Kovács' book is not the first book on Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Jacques Rancière has equally published a book, though rather slim, about Tarr, titled...

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Slow – Sascha Seifert (2013)

April 13, 2014

by Nadin Mai

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A film about snails - perhaps the most appropriate slow film you can imagine. Though I still think that a film about sloths, those beloved...

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The (in)significance of dialogue

April 3, 2014

by Nadin Mai

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While adding a few paragraphs to my chapter on Lav Diaz's Death in the Land of Encantos (2007), it occurred to me that for some slow...

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The invisible princes

March 11, 2014

by Nadin Mai

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When I watched Lav Diaz's Death in the Land of Encantos again, I had a nice encounter with a prince, the prince of the black dwarfs...

Research

Slow Cinema and Chinese Painting V

February 14, 2014

by Nadin Mai

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The second last feature I would like to mention is the use of monochrome aesthetics. It is something that cannot be applied to Slow Cinema...

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Slow Cinema and Chinese Painting IV

February 6, 2014

by Nadin Mai

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I want to continue with the slow and painterly journey today. You can find the previous three parts here, here and here

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Day 24 – Surprise (me)

December 24, 2013

by Nadin Mai

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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...

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Day 22 – Two Years At Sea (Rivers)

December 22, 2013

by Nadin Mai

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Ben Rivers needs to be included in this year's advent calendar. When I watched his film first time round at last year's Slow Cinema weekend...

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Day 19 – Liverpool (Alonso)

December 19, 2013

by Nadin Mai

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I reviewed Alonso's Los Muertos earlier this month. Liverpool is my third Alonso film, and I have the feeling that his filmmaking has slightly changed since he...

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