The weight of time
If you study Slow Cinema, or time in film in more general terms, you cannot avoid reading Mary Ann Doane's The Emergence of Cinematic Time...
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Tag: Film
Imburnal – Sherad Anthony Sanchez (2008)
October 7, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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If you're done watching Lav Diaz's long films and need a film to fix this problem, Sherad Anthony Sanchez' three-and-a-half hour film Imburnal (2008) may...
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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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Costa da Morte – Lois Patino (2013)
September 14, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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The film starts with a beautiful shot of fog hanging over a couple of slim high trees about to be felled. In an extreme long...
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The concentrationary universe in the films of Lav Diaz (paper)
September 8, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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RPG Conference, University of Stirling, 4 September 2014 Introduction At the end of 1943, Primo Levi, a trained chemist from Italy, was arrested, and a...
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Slow Cinema on Tumblr
June 27, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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The Art(s) of Slow Cinema has made its snail way to Tumblr. This will not replace this website at all. Fear not! I keep returning...
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Happy Slow Year 2014
January 2, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Here it is, the New Year. I hope you all had a lovely Hogmanay and New Year’s day in your respective countries around the world....
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Day 4 – Daughter…Father…Daughter (Rezaee)
December 4, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Day four allowed me to leave the cramped Chinese apartment. Instead I moved to an era of Iran I thought never existed. If anything, we...
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The Side-Effects of Slow Cinema Studies
November 28, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Out of the blue, my partner wondered this morning whether he was becoming slower in his brains. In the same context, he mentioned his viewing...
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