Tag: duration
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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The Ditch – Wang Bing (2010)
March 18, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Wang Bing's films have been high on my watch list for quite some time. West of the Tracks, a nine-hour documentary, is still waiting for me....
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Between Suspense and Time Terror
September 23, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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As a result of the paper I gave at the University of Stirling at the beginning of the month, I looked more into aspects of...
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