The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer (2023)
I often wonder: when did we stop? When did we stop caring, when did we stop being human? When did we stop seeing in the...
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Tag: sound
Memoria – Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2021)
November 25, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Life is experiential. Every life is an experience. What sounds pretty simple, is incredibly difficult to acknowledge. Really acknowledge, take it in, and live by...
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Birha – Ekta Mittal (2018)
July 20, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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I have fallen in love. I have fallen in love with a film, with a filmmaker. I have fallen in love with a hypnotising atmosphere,...
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Chantal Akerman – Afterlives (Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson, 2019)
July 5, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Afterlives. The title of the new English-language book on Akerman's work, edited by Marion Schmid and Emma Wilson, is poignant, painful even, but perhaps the...
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A Yangtze Landscape – Xu Xin (2017)
February 21, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There are films, which I'm grateful for. Grateful for being able to watch them, grateful for being able to write about them. Grateful for being...
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The weeping meadow – Theo Angelopoulos (2004)
October 12, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It took me much longer than usual to write my new blog post, which is primarily down to health reasons. An inflamed elbow could, in...
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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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I don’t want to sleep alone – Tsai Ming-liang (2006)
June 25, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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I discovered Tsai Ming-liang's films early on in my research into Slow Cinema, or even well before I started my PhD. The director from Taiwan...
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El Cielo, la Tierra y la Lluvia – José Luis Torres Leiva (2008)
June 15, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
June 4, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It's been weird lately. First, I struggled to find the time to watch films. I was immersed in books, really good ones, and I didn't...
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