Films Inland Sea – Kazuhiro Soda (2018) February 16, 2020 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment 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... Read More
Books & Articles Films Misc Research 2019 – The Year in Review December 10, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments Another year comes to an end and perhaps you’re as tired of “end of year” lists as I am. Every December (and increasingly every November),... Read More
Films Heimat is a space in time – Thomas Heise (2019) September 5, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments I've been thinking a lot about how to write something that would do justice to Thomas Heise's Heimat is a space in time (2019). It... Read More
Films Memory of Time – HeeWon Lee (Rennes, 2019) July 19, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments It is possibly the first time that I'm writing about a specific video installation here on this blog. I have read quite a bit during... Read More
Films The year after Dayton – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1997) April 2, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments Since summer last year, I have slowly but surely made my way through the filmography of Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter, who I have started to... Read More
Books & Articles Research The spirit of absence February 6, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments I have long been fascinated by the power of absence. I hadn't known that this was one element that drew me towards Slow Cinema until... Read More
Films Kaili Blues – Bi Gan (2015) January 24, 2019 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments It is impossible to retain a past thought, to seize a future thought, and even to hold onto a present thought. There couldn't be a... Read More
Films Dead Souls – Wang Bing (2018) December 6, 2018 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment It seems as though Chinese director Wang Bing gets better and better. Each film improves on the previous one, and with this I don't mean... Read More
Films The weeping meadow – Theo Angelopoulos (2004) October 12, 2018 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment It took me much longer than usual to write my new blog post, which is primarily down to health reasons. An inflamed elbow could, in... Read More
Films Research Arresting trauma – Martti Helde’s In The Crosswinds (2014) April 27, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments "On the night of 14 June 1941, more than 40,000 innocent people were deported from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The aim of this secret operation... Read More