Mrs Fang – Wang Bing (2017)
The winner of the Pardo D'oro at this year's Locarno Film Festival, and a brave decision of the festival jury headed by Olivier Assayas, if...
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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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Jean-Paul Curnier’s writings on the image
August 9, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Something I genuinely love, now that I'm in France, is that I can walk into any book shop and I find amazing books that really...
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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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Cochihza – Khristine Gillard (2013)
July 21, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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It doesn't happen very often that I have to rewatch a film because I forgot about its contents. In fact, it never happened to the...
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Welfare – Frederick Wiseman (1975)
June 29, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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In past years, several people have pointed out the work by Frederick Wiseman to me, in particular whenever I spoke of Lav Diaz and his...
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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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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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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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