Hele sa hiwagang hapis – Lav Diaz (2016)
Well, he did it again, and Lav Diaz's Berlinale entry Hele sa hiwagang hapis is, at the same time, his longest film since his nine-hour...
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Where are you going? – Zhengfan Yang (2016)
February 8, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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If the film's title were a question about the direction of the filmmaker, then I would respond to it with "higher and higher". Where Are You...
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The aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz
January 19, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Now that the PhD has been awarded, I’m happy to make my thesis, the first coherent study of the films of Lav Diaz, available for...
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Plenty questions for…Lav Diaz
January 15, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Guernica magazine has published my interview with Lav Diaz today, which I conducted in November 2015 during the retrospective of his work at Jeu de...
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Call for Films!
January 8, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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The Art(s) of Slow Cinema is looking for slow, contemplative films for its forthcoming video-on-demand platform! The Art(s) of Slow Cinema VoD platform is an...
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Slow Cinema, ed by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge (2015)
January 4, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I'm not sure where to start with this one. Not considering the content for a minute, the new and very first edited collection on Slow...
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Slow Cinema on VoD
December 29, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been toying with the idea of setting up a VoD platform entirely dedicated to slow films, which are...
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A place called Lloyd – Sebastian Cordes (2015)
December 14, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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If there is a film that takes the ideas of absence and nothingness almost literally, then it is surely Sebastian Cordes' new film A place called...
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Towards a poor cinema
December 4, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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The title of today's post is not at all meant to be derogative. I like Slow Cinema too much for a defamation of it. I...
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Malaventura – Michel Lipkes (2011)
November 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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The last day in the life of an elderly man - this is the entire premise of Michel Lipkes' wonderful debut feature. Once more, I...
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