Human Condition(s) – NOW AVAILABLE
It is an enormous pleasure to announce that my monograph Human Condition(s) – An aesthetic if cinematic slowness is now available for purchase. I started...
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Tag: trauma
Notturno – Gianfranco Rosi (2020)
March 22, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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After the end credits of Gianfranco Rosi’s new film Notturno appeared on the screen, the blog post I had mentally written throughout the duration of...
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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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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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About Endlessness – Roy Andersson (2019)
March 23, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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I'm unsure as to whether I could name a single living director, who speaks to me in a way Roy Andersson does at the moment....
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Ausma – Laila Pakalnina (2015)
October 8, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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How does one handle a film, which so strikingly resembles human memory, in particular traumatic memory? The Baltic states have had a tumultuous history, most...
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By the name of Tania – Mary Jimenez, Bénédicte Liénard (2019)
May 17, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Since the Industrial Revolution, children have been massively exploited for work. Even though nation states regulated child labour, there is still a lot of work...
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The year after Dayton – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1997)
April 2, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Since summer last year, I have slowly but surely made my way through the filmography of Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter, who I have started to...
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Dead Souls – Wang Bing (2018)
December 6, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It seems as though Chinese director Wang Bing gets better and better. Each film improves on the previous one, and with this I don't mean...
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Shoah – Claude Lanzmann (1985)
July 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It is clear to me that Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) would never make it into a Slow Cinema list. Perhaps, it shouldn't be. Perhaps, it should...
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