A slow return
I’m sipping on a slowly brewed coffee. At my favourite local café. It’s been three months that I haven’t had a chance to do this....
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Tag: slow film
Waiting Time
January 9, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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The end of the year 2018 was, in France at least, a period in which the media focused on the subject of time. The quantity...
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24 Frames – Abbas Kiarostami (2017)
August 22, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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One of the defining characteristics of Slow Cinema is that quite a number of films, in particular experimental films, question the difference between photography and...
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The Long Take – Art Cinema and the Wondrous (Lutz Koepnick, 2017)
July 30, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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Time for a new book review. It's been comparatively quiet in academic publishing when it comes to Slow Cinema. I speak of experience when I...
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Slow Short Film Festival – Full Programme
July 26, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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Last year, the very first edition of the Slow Short Film Festival took place in Mayfield, England. It was a first, to me in any...
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The art of emptiness – Itzhak Goldberg (ed, 2017)
January 28, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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After a rather long break from writing due to health reasons, I'm trying to embark on finally writing something about that book I bought last...
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Year 2017 in review
December 27, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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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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Jean-Paul Curnier’s writings on the image
August 9, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Something I genuinely love, now that I'm in France, is that I can walk into any book shop and I find amazing books that really...
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Straub-Huillet: what is film?
July 11, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Thanks to a very good and impressive collection of DVDs in my local library/cultural centre, I had the chance to discover the works of Jean-Marie...
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