Sneak Peek at The Art(s) of Slow Cinema journal (Issue 1)
It’s slowly coming together, the first print issue of The Art(s) of Slow Cinema. The design is ready (for now), and I have put work...
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Tag: cinematic slowness
Fresh from the press: new books on Chantal Akerman
February 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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I took a literary journey through the works of Chantal Akerman thanks to two new books that have been published on her work. Not so...
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The art of emptiness – Itzhak Goldberg (ed, 2017)
January 28, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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After a rather long break from writing due to health reasons, I'm trying to embark on finally writing something about that book I bought last...
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Tremor – Annik Leroy (2017)
August 16, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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It was in the French national paper Libération that I first came across the work of Annik Leroy. I added a note to myself and thought...
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News from Home – Chantal Akerman (1977)
August 4, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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I'm slowly but surely diving more into Chantal Akerman's filmography. I believe that her work contains a lot that I have been interested in throughout...
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West of the Tracks – Wang Bing (2003)
May 16, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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If you hear people speaking about Slow Cinema, or see lists of films that are usually considered to be part of this genre or this...
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Autoportrait en cinéaste / Ma mère rit (Chantal Akerman)
April 4, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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In the last fortnight or so, I have read two books by Chantal Akerman. One of them, Autoportrait en cinéaste, is, in fact, a sort of...
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Slow Cinema and Cultural Memory
November 18, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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In a previous post I mentioned my own personal experience with slow films in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder. Given the comments I had...
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Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy
October 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I set up this blog in the autumn of 2012, at the start of my doctoral research. It's funny just how much the original subject...
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