Films VoD platform Wanderer – Martynas Kundrotas (2016) April 10, 2017 by Nadin Mai No Comments !!! This film is now available on tao films until 30 June 2017 !!! Three months ago, I have moved to Brittany after two pretty... Read More
Books & Articles Autoportrait en cinéaste / Ma mère rit (Chantal Akerman) April 4, 2017 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment In the last fortnight or so, I have read two books by Chantal Akerman. One of them, Autoportrait en cinéaste, is, in fact, a sort of... Read More
Books & Articles Art and Therapy (Alain de Botton, John Armstrong, 2014) March 28, 2017 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong had been on my list from the moment I saw it online. With my research... Read More
Books & Articles Book review: Contemporary art and time (2016) March 14, 2017 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments Towards the end of my PhD research, I noticed that quite a few interesting works in my area have been published by Presses Universitaires de... Read More
Research Death Time April 2, 2015 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments Oh yes, a cheery title for this blog post. I apologise. But this only comes because of an email I received from one of my... Read More
Films The Ditch – Wang Bing (2010) March 18, 2015 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments Wang Bing's films have been high on my watch list for quite some time. West of the Tracks, a nine-hour documentary, is still waiting for me.... Read More
Research The weight of time October 20, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Books & Articles Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness – Song Hwee Lim (2014) June 3, 2014 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments 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... Read More
Research Slow Cinema and Chinese Painting III January 21, 2014 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments Time to go into more detail about Slow Cinema and Chinese painting. You can find Part 1 and 2 here and here. I start with... Read More
Literature Research The Power of Time June 17, 2013 by Nadin Mai No Comments People who prefer slowness in their lives argue that we're all slaves of the clock. Those who can't live without the constant rush of adrenaline... Read More