Self Portrait: Window in 47km – Zhang Mengqi (2019)
In recent months and years, I have come across quite a substantial number of strong, independent slow films from China. Of course, Wang Bing remains...
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Tag: Fengming
Father and Sons – Wang Bing (2014)
June 15, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Over several years, Wang Bing has built up a library of films about migration. We tend to understand migration as a movement of people. It...
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Dead Souls – Wang Bing (2018)
December 6, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It seems as though Chinese director Wang Bing gets better and better. Each film improves on the previous one, and with this I don’t mean...
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Shoah – Claude Lanzmann (1985)
July 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It is clear to me that Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985) would never make it into a Slow Cinema list. Perhaps, it shouldn’t be. Perhaps, it should...
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Bitter Money – Wang Bing (2016)
June 14, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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I don’t know whether it’s only my perception of it or whether there is indeed a real surge of interest in the films of Wang...
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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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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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Wang Bing – A filmmaker in today’s China (2014)
October 7, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I quite like how much material there is in France about Chinese director Wang Bing. I had always thought that he was as invisible academically...
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Ta’ang – Wang Bing (2016)
September 2, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I’m on a Wang Bing roll at the moment. I have finally found the time to see his work, and all kinds of things run...
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Fengming, a Chinese memoir – Wang Bing (2007)
August 29, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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It must have been a year or two that I watched my very first Wang Bing film. Stupidly enough, I chose The Ditch, a feature film...
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