Films Pripyat – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1999) August 9, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments A woman is walking through a dead landscape. Nature has taken over what Man has built. It's wilderness we see. "These wild apples grew after... Read More
Books & Articles The Long Take – Art Cinema and the Wondrous (Lutz Koepnick, 2017) July 30, 2018 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment Time for a new book review. It's been comparatively quiet in academic publishing when it comes to Slow Cinema. I speak of experience when I... Read More
Festivals Films Slow Short Film Festival – Full Programme July 26, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments Last year, the very first edition of the Slow Short Film Festival took place in Mayfield, England. It was a first, to me in any... Read More
Films Shoah – Claude Lanzmann (1985) July 10, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments It is clear to me that Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) would never make it into a Slow Cinema list. Perhaps, it shouldn't be. Perhaps, it should... Read More
Films Abendland – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2011) July 6, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments The first time I came across the work of Nikolaus Geyrhalter was when I watched his absolutely superb Homo Sapiens, which was so rich, so affective... Read More
Films I don’t want to sleep alone – Tsai Ming-liang (2006) June 25, 2018 by Nadin Mai 6 Comments I discovered Tsai Ming-liang's films early on in my research into Slow Cinema, or even well before I started my PhD. The director from Taiwan... Read More
Films El Cielo, la Tierra y la Lluvia – José Luis Torres Leiva (2008) June 15, 2018 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment I think (although I could be wrong) that this post is a premiere, as it is probably the first post about a slow film from... Read More
Films Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky (1966) June 4, 2018 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments It's been weird lately. First, I struggled to find the time to watch films. I was immersed in books, really good ones, and I didn't... Read More
Books & Articles Films Literature Research The next step – The Art(s) of Slow Cinema Journal May 23, 2018 by Nadin Mai 12 Comments It’s been several years that I dream of publishing my own journal. I was still a student when I began to think about pursuing this... Read More
Films Man With No Name – Wang Bing (2010) May 14, 2018 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment Anonymity and intimacy - these two characteristics work hand in hand in Wang Bing's Man With No Name (2010), which is a mere glimpse of the... Read More