Slow Cinema VoD – Update (1)
As promised, a first, rather brief update, about how things are developing regarding the forthcoming (oh, I’m super excited!) Slow Cinema VoD platform. Two weeks...
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Tag: Film
Behemoth – Zhao Liang (2015)
March 14, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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How do you write about something that is, cinematographically, absolutely gorgeous but which, paradoxically in doing so, highlights the suffering of labourers? Behemoth by Chinese director Zhao...
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Havarie – Philip Scheffner (2016)
March 3, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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What does the word "havarie" actually stand for? Originally, it is linked to ships, speaking of accidents, emergencies, and shipwrecks. But we can draw the...
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Passions of the will to boredom
February 29, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I have taken today's post title from Julian Jason Haladyn's wonderful book Boredom and Art: Passions of the Will To Boredom (2015), which I have read...
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The Art(s) of Slow Cinema VoD – Project Description
February 23, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Here it is, as promised – a little later than I had hoped for but better late than never! Please find the full project description...
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Hele sa hiwagang hapis – Lav Diaz (2016)
February 18, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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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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