Year in Review 2020
A few years ago, I started to write a little summary of what the year in Slow Cinema was like. I liked to look back...
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Tag: Bi Gan
Long Day’s Journey Into Night – Bi Gan (2018)
August 17, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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It has something bizarre to it. Seeing a film by Bi Gan, which defies any temporal and spatial orientation in the middle of a disorienting...
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Self-Portrait: Sphinx at 47km – Zhang Mengqi (2017)
January 7, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Could it be that China currently has the single most promising output of contemporary Slow Cinema? I could, of course, be wrong. And yet it...
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Happy 10th Slow Cinema anniversary
March 18, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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This year marks a special anniversary for me. Ten years ago in summer, I watched my first slow film. It was Béla Tarr’s The Man from...
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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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