D’Est – Chantal Akerman (1993)
Chantal Akerman's D'est is a great example of Slow Cinema, and for those who do not feel prepared to start with eight hours Lav Diaz,...
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Tag: slowness
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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Review: On Slowness – Lutz Koepnick (2014)
December 18, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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The contemporary hype around slowness in all its forms has filled shelves in bookstores for several years now. Most of these books are a kind...
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The weight of time
October 20, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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If you study Slow Cinema, or time in film in more general terms, you cannot avoid reading Mary Ann Doane's The Emergence of Cinematic Time...
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Slow Art Cinema
October 6, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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This is a brief post to say that an article by me was published on the Slow Art Day blog. Some of you may remember...
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For a new cinema
June 30, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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In one way of another, you may have heard of Alain Robbe-Grillet's now rather famous book For a New Novel, which was published in its...
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Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness – Song Hwee Lim (2014)
June 3, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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In 2003, Michel Ciment coined the term "a cinema of slowness." A year later, Jonathan Romney coined the now popular term "Slow Cinema." It's quite...
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The Side-Effects of Slow Cinema Studies
November 28, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Out of the blue, my partner wondered this morning whether he was becoming slower in his brains. In the same context, he mentioned his viewing...
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The River Used to be a Man
October 19, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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It's been a while that I watched a good slow film. My head rarely thinks ouside Lav Diaz's films at the moment. I'm trying to...
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Slow – The Film
May 4, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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It's been quite a while now that I got totally excited about Bovines, a French (slow) film about cows, made by Emmanuel Gras. It sounds...
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