Present. Past. – The Cinema of Lav Diaz
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...
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Til madness do us part – Wang Bing (2013)
March 8, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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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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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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Towards a poor cinema
December 4, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy
October 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Naked under the moon – Lav Diaz (1999)
September 16, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Dates for Lav Diaz retrospective in Brussels
August 25, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Lav Diaz retrospective at Cinematek, Brussels
June 17, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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(E)Motion in slow films
June 12, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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