Slow reconciliation with nature
This morning, I left the house at 8 o'clock. I went to a bridge that is close to my flat and that overlooks the canal...
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Tag: Semih Kaplanoglu
Mourning Cinema
May 16, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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For parts of my work on Lav Diaz's Melancholia, I read Richard Armstrong's Mourning Films (2012). It wasn't quite as helpful as I thought for...
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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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Day 21 – Bal (Kaplanoglu)
December 21, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Semih Kaplanoglu's Bal (2010) is the most wonderful coming-of-age story I've seen so far, especially in the context of Slow Cinema. I remember that I saw this...
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Day 7 – Los Muertos (Alonso)
December 7, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Et voila, I am back on the South American continent, in Argentina to be exact. Lisandro Alonso is for me a special slow-film director. Not...
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