Rumination
About three weeks ago, I started an introductory course in psychology. I felt the need to dive a little deeper into what I myself was...
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Tag: boredom
Book review: Contemporary art and time (2016)
March 14, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Towards the end of my PhD research, I noticed that quite a few interesting works in my area have been published by Presses Universitaires de...
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Monochrome Painting and Slow Cinema
July 5, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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At the very beginning of my doctoral research, I linked Slow Cinema to static art, especially Chinese painting. Traditional Chinese painting, I found, had characteristics...
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Passions of the will to boredom
February 29, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I have taken today’s post title from Julian Jason Haladyn’s wonderful book Boredom and Art: Passions of the Will To Boredom (2015), which I have read...
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Default Setting: Bored
February 16, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Just last week I read Jakob Boer’s interesting paper “As Slow As Possible: An Enquiry Into the Redeeming Power of Boredom for Slow Film Viewers”...
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Imburnal – Sherad Anthony Sanchez (2008)
October 7, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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If you’re done watching Lav Diaz’s long films and need a film to fix this problem, Sherad Anthony Sanchez’ three-and-a-half hour film Imburnal (2008) may...
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Perpetuum Mobile – Nicolas Pereda (2009)
July 8, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Boredom – this word could be considered as a one-word summary of Nicolas Pereda’s Perpetuum Mobile (2009). Not so much of the viewer’s state. Personally,...
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Slow Cinema at the Museum!?
February 22, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Slow Cinema is often, wrongly, seen in terms of boredom. For me, this has two reasons. The first one is the term itself. In an...
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