Conferences Films Papers Present. Past. – The Cinema of Lav Diaz September 12, 2020 by Nadin Mai 5 Comments Yesterday, I presented a brief overview of the cinema of Filipino director Lav Diaz as part of a webinar on arthouse cinema, organised by the... Read More
Films Til madness do us part – Wang Bing (2013) March 8, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments It was difficult to find time for writing another review. I have been asked to write an essay on Wang Bing for Thessaloniki International Film... Read More
Films Hele sa hiwagang hapis – Lav Diaz (2016) February 18, 2016 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment 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... Read More
Books & Articles Films Literature The aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz January 19, 2016 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments 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... Read More
Research Towards a poor cinema December 4, 2015 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments The title of today's post is not at all meant to be derogative. I like Slow Cinema too much for a defamation of it. I... Read More
Misc Research Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy October 22, 2015 by Nadin Mai 14 Comments I set up this blog in the autumn of 2012, at the start of my doctoral research. It's funny just how much the original subject... Read More
Films Naked under the moon – Lav Diaz (1999) September 16, 2015 by Nadin Mai No Comments Before some of you mention it, Naked Under The Moon (1999) is not a classical Lav Diaz slow film and it appears strange to add... Read More
Festivals Films Dates for Lav Diaz retrospective in Brussels August 25, 2015 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments The schedule has finally been published and I’m happy to list the dates of the Cinematek’s Lav Diaz retrospective here, starting in mid-September and lasting... Read More
Festivals Lav Diaz retrospective at Cinematek, Brussels June 17, 2015 by Nadin Mai No Comments If you either can’t get enough of Lav Diaz’s films or want to get to know his kind of cinema or are simply desperate to... Read More
Books & Articles Research (E)Motion in slow films June 12, 2015 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment A couple of days I ago, I came across a new article by Ira Jaffe, who wrote the, to me, unconvincing book Slow Movies (2014). In Slow... Read More