Slow Cinema and Cultural Memory
In a previous post I mentioned my own personal experience with slow films in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder. Given the comments I had...
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Tag: trauma
Ambiancé [trailer] – Anders Weberg (2016)
April 21, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I’m not sure where, or how to start. Usually, those reviews always come with an intro, but how to introduce a seven-hour long-take? If I...
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Horse Money – Pedro Costa (2014)
April 18, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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It's kind of sad that you have to wait almost two years for a brilliant film to cross your way. I missed Pedro Costa's new...
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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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Plenty questions for…Lav Diaz
January 15, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Guernica magazine has published my interview with Lav Diaz today, which I conducted in November 2015 during the retrospective of his work at Jeu de...
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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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Venues for Lav Diaz film strand wanted
June 8, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Now that my thesis is almost on the way to the printer, I can start focusing on other things. After three years of research, I...
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Breaking: Lav Diaz film available for streaming on Mubi
April 23, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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A brief blog post to say that Lav Diaz’s Locarno winning film From What Is Before (2014) is now available for streaming on MUBI (globally) for...
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Death Time
April 2, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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The concentrationary universe in the films of Lav Diaz (paper)
September 8, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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RPG Conference, University of Stirling, 4 September 2014 Introduction At the end of 1943, Primo Levi, a trained chemist from Italy, was arrested, and a...
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