Iro – Hadi Mohaghegh (2018)
What should I do? Should I go or not go? An old man mumbles these words into his beard. With a slight hunchback and visibly...
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Tag: landscape
Ancient Soul – Alvaro Gurrea (2021)
June 23, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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I am often amazed at the films that are being made across the world. They can be so simple and yet so powerful. Slow films,...
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Red Moon Tide – Lois Patino (2019)
January 6, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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The moon is a monster, it devours time. Rubio. A fisherman. He loved the sea, he loved the freedom when heading out with his boat....
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Emancipation
October 12, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Admittedly, I had quite a break from The Art(s) of Slow Cinema. Four weeks without a blog post is not in my nature. Nor was...
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In between dying — Hilal Baydarov (2020)
September 19, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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To wait is utter darkness. When we wait, time is suspended. Often, we wait for something that makes us nervous or anxious, something that makes...
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Solitude at the end of the world – Carlos Casas (2006)
May 4, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Perhaps, there is no better film right at this very moment than Carlos Casas’ Solitude at the end of the world. It’s been ten weeks...
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Knife in the Clear Water – Xuebo Wang (2016)
March 9, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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In 2011, Béla Tarr presented his last feature film, The Turin Horse. The film, in which he had stripped everything bare, contains a lot of...
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Inland Sea – Kazuhiro Soda (2018)
February 16, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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How can we understand slow films? What do they show, what do they tell us? At some point during my (previously academic) research, I came...
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Century of Smoke – Nicolas Graux (2019)
April 6, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There is one aspect of my work in the field of Slow Cinema, which I like more than anything else: the opportunity to travel the...
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A Yangtze Landscape – Xu Xin (2017)
February 21, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There are films, which I’m grateful for. Grateful for being able to watch them, grateful for being able to write about them. Grateful for being...
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