Tag: post-trauma
Ausma – Laila Pakalnina (2015)
October 8, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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How does one handle a film, which so strikingly resembles human memory, in particular traumatic memory? The Baltic states have had a tumultuous history, most...
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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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The Multisensory Film Experience
January 5, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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If there is one thing that is visible in my research of the last three to four years, then it is my interest in why...
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Slow Cinema and Cultural Memory
November 18, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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In a previous post I mentioned my own personal experience with slow films in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder. Given the comments I had...
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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 aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz
January 19, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy
October 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I set up this blog in the autumn of 2012, at the start of my doctoral research. It's funny just how much the original subject...
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The slow long-take?
August 4, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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If you have been following this blog from the beginning, you may have noticed that I regularly return to the issue of the long-take and...
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