Waiting Time
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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Tag: speed
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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Austerlitz’s time
January 11, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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What is Austerlitz’s time, and where do I get this from? Well, I didn’t expect my wanting to write a blog post about Jacques Austerlitz...
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Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy
October 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I set up this blog in the autumn of 2012, at the start of my doctoral research. It’s funny just how much the original subject...
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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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Interview with Michela Occhipinti
March 14, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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In 2010, filmmaker Michela Occhipinti made the brilliant and yet subtle slow film Letters from the Desert – Eulogy to Slowness. I have reviewed the film...
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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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Some (Futurist) Thoughts
February 3, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Those who read this blog regularly, or those who know me personally, are aware of my hostility towards the opposition of Slow Cinema to Hollywood,...
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