Films Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi (2022) February 8, 2023 by Nadin Mai No Comments It’s been quiet around Iran for many weeks now. When the young Mahsa Amin died at the hands of the country’s moral police, the support... Read More
Misc Searching February 3, 2023 by Nadin Mai No Comments It’s interesting to see how things develop. In my last post, I spoke about resonance. A lot of it was based on Hartmut Rosa’s book... Read More
Misc Research Resonance January 3, 2023 by Nadin Mai No Comments I have often been asked how I got interested in Slow Cinema, how I was able to distinguish slow films from other arthouse films. I... Read More
Films Misc Year in Review 2022 December 22, 2022 by Nadin Mai 5 Comments The last time I published a post on this blog was to inform you all about a rather unpleasant development in my mind. I’m using... Read More
Uncategorised Burnout October 31, 2022 by Nadin Mai 10 Comments I don’t quite know how to start this post. Only two weeks ago, I shipped the first copies of The Art(s) of Slow Cinema – The 10th... Read More
Films Longing in times of social distancing October 11, 2022 by Nadin Mai No Comments The following was written for a project filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, who dreamt of putting together a magazine he would call MEAT and which would... Read More
Films Feathers – Omar El Zohairy (2021) September 14, 2022 by Nadin Mai No Comments I’m thinking of Wang Bing. I’m thinking of Pedro Costa. I’m thinking of Tarkovsky’s Stalker who gets up from his bed in the morning. I’m... Read More
Films A Vanishing Fog – Augusto Sandino (2021) September 5, 2022 by Nadin Mai No Comments How can we understand what is happening around us? How can we make sense of Planet Earth burning in front of our eyes? Can we... Read More
Films A Night of Knowing Nothing – Payal Kapadia (2021) August 24, 2022 by Nadin Mai No Comments Two or three weeks after the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine, I fell into a deep depression, which I haven’t quite left behind... Read More
Books & Articles Pre-order: The Art(s) of Slow Cinema Anthology August 19, 2022 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments Thirteen years ago, I saw my first slow film. Ten years ago, I started writing about slow films. A decade of writing, of thinking, of... Read More