Human Condition(s) – NOW AVAILABLE
It is an enormous pleasure to announce that my monograph Human Condition(s) – An aesthetic if cinematic slowness is now available for purchase. I started...
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Tag: Pedro Costa
Vitalina Varela – Pedro Costa (2019)
October 28, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to think of a woman in film, who has such a magical, such an overpowering aura around her as...
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Happy 10th Slow Cinema anniversary
March 18, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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This year marks a special anniversary for me. Ten years ago in summer, I watched my first slow film. It was Béla Tarr’s The Man from...
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Shoah – Claude Lanzmann (1985)
July 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It is clear to me that Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) would never make it into a Slow Cinema list. Perhaps, it shouldn't be. Perhaps, it should...
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Fresh from the press: new books on Chantal Akerman
February 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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I took a literary journey through the works of Chantal Akerman thanks to two new books that have been published on her work. Not so...
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The nocturnal and the slow
April 30, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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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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New books on Pedro Costa & Béla Tarr
August 12, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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The initial wave of I-want-to-be-the-first has subsided, and after quite a few not very good books on Slow Cinema or on slow-film directors, we're slowly...
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Horse Money – Pedro Costa (2014)
April 18, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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It's kind of sad that you have to wait almost two years for a brilliant film to cross your way. I missed Pedro Costa's new...
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The Art(s) of Slow Cinema in Locarno
July 26, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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A brief post to say that I will be traveling to this year’s Locarno Film Festival. The line-up looks great, and I’m hoping to catch...
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Day 24 – Surprise (me)
December 24, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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I finish this year’s advent calendar with a self-experiment in slow-filmmaking. It’s one thing to watch slow films all the time. But as I was...
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