Year 2017 in review
I'm not someone who likes lists, all sorts of The best films..., The worst films... etc I never saw a point of social media getting obsessed with...
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Tag: literature
Book review: Chantal Akerman, Passer la nuit – Corinne Rondeau (2017)
November 20, 2017
by Nadin Mai
1 Comment
A small book at the bottom of a shelf that is overwhelmed with books on the big names of Hollywood; films, directors, actresses. There, somewhere...
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Film Spectatorship
June 9, 2017
by Nadin Mai
1 Comment
Something that has always fascinated me is film spectatorship in regards to Slow Cinema. While film spectatorship as a subject isn't entirely absent from research,...
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The nocturnal and the slow
April 30, 2017
by Nadin Mai
1 Comment
Béla Tarr's The Man from London (2007) impressed me with its images that had been shot at night. The almost complete blackness of the night, seen...
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Autoportrait en cinéaste / Ma mère rit (Chantal Akerman)
April 4, 2017
by Nadin Mai
1 Comment
In the last fortnight or so, I have read two books by Chantal Akerman. One of them, Autoportrait en cinéaste, is, in fact, a sort of...
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Art and Therapy (Alain de Botton, John Armstrong, 2014)
March 28, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong had been on my list from the moment I saw it online. With my research...
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Book review: Contemporary art and time (2016)
March 14, 2017
by Nadin Mai
4 Comments
Towards the end of my PhD research, I noticed that quite a few interesting works in my area have been published by Presses Universitaires de...
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Wang Bing – A filmmaker in today’s China (2014)
October 7, 2016
by Nadin Mai
1 Comment
I quite like how much material there is in France about Chinese director Wang Bing. I had always thought that he was as invisible academically...
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10 questions for… Jenni Olson
October 12, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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