Rumination
About three weeks ago, I started an introductory course in psychology. I felt the need to dive a little deeper into what I myself was...
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Tag: Trauma Cinema
Present. Past. – The Cinema of Lav Diaz
September 12, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Yesterday, I presented a brief overview of the cinema of Filipino director Lav Diaz as part of a webinar on arthouse cinema, organised by the...
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Arresting trauma – Martti Helde’s In The Crosswinds (2014)
April 27, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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“On the night of 14 June 1941, more than 40,000 innocent people were deported from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The aim of this secret operation...
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The aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz
January 19, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Now that the PhD has been awarded, I’m happy to make my thesis, the first coherent study of the films of Lav Diaz, available for...
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Default Setting: Bored
February 16, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Just last week I read Jakob Boer’s interesting paper “As Slow As Possible: An Enquiry Into the Redeeming Power of Boredom for Slow Film Viewers”...
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The different slowness in Evolution of a Filipino Family
July 28, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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After my initial thoughts on Lav Diaz’s Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004), I am now in the position to say a bit more about it,...
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