Films Earth – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2019) April 9, 2020 by Nadin Mai No Comments Towards the end of the last decade, a new term made its way into public discourse: the anthropocene. Although this isn't entirely true. The term... Read More
Films The Tree – André Gil Mata (2018) November 27, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments Tarkovskian. Tarr-esque. Filmind. André Gil Mata’s The Tree had me thinking a lot, had me admire what I saw and had me marvel over the... Read More
Films Walden – Daniel Zimmermann (2018) June 17, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments Not so long ago, I picked up Henry David Thoreau's book Walden. Published in the middle of the 19th century, it is now something of... Read More
Films 24 Frames – Abbas Kiarostami (2017) August 22, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films El Cielo, la Tierra y la Lluvia – José Luis Torres Leiva (2008) June 15, 2018 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment I think (although I could be wrong) that this post is a premiere, as it is probably the first post about a slow film from... Read More
Books & Articles Films Literature Research The next step – The Art(s) of Slow Cinema Journal May 23, 2018 by Nadin Mai 12 Comments It’s been several years that I dream of publishing my own journal. I was still a student when I began to think about pursuing this... Read More
Films The Essence of Place – Susannah Ramsay (2017) October 26, 2017 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments It is 8.30 in the evening. It is dark and wet, although it has stopped raining for a little while. I'm at the RSPB reserve... Read More
Films Tremor – Annik Leroy (2017) August 16, 2017 by Nadin Mai 7 Comments It was in the French national paper Libération that I first came across the work of Annik Leroy. I added a note to myself and thought... Read More
Films West of the Tracks – Wang Bing (2003) May 16, 2017 by Nadin Mai 10 Comments If you hear people speaking about Slow Cinema, or see lists of films that are usually considered to be part of this genre or this... Read More
Misc Research The nocturnal and the slow April 30, 2017 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment 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... Read More