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
Interviews Plenty questions for…Lav Diaz January 15, 2016 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films D’Est – Chantal Akerman (1993) October 29, 2015 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment Chantal Akerman's D'est is a great example of Slow Cinema, and for those who do not feel prepared to start with eight hours Lav Diaz,... Read More
Interviews 10 questions for… Jenni Olson October 12, 2015 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment A couple weeks ago, I wrote a few thoughts on Jenni Olson's The Royal Road, which is a wonderful piece. I hope you can see it... Read More
Films The Royal Road – Jenni Olson (2014) August 30, 2015 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments How I had missed this fight inside my head of what is slow and what isn't. Jenni Olson's deeply personal, moving and engaging film The Royal... Read More
Conferences Festivals Films Research Venues for Lav Diaz film strand wanted June 8, 2015 by Nadin Mai No Comments Now that my thesis is almost on the way to the printer, I can start focusing on other things. After three years of research, I... Read More
Films Breaking: Lav Diaz film available for streaming on Mubi April 23, 2015 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments A brief blog post to say that Lav Diaz’s Locarno winning film From What Is Before (2014) is now available for streaming on MUBI (globally) for... Read More
Research Death Time April 2, 2015 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments Oh yes, a cheery title for this blog post. I apologise. But this only comes because of an email I received from one of my... Read More
Films Costa da Morte – Lois Patino (2013) September 14, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Interviews Interview with Lav Diaz (Extracts, Part I) August 18, 2014 by Nadin Mai 6 Comments I conducted quite a long interview with Lav Diaz at the Locarno Film Festival, where his new film Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon ran... Read More