Slow Retirements
It came as a shock to cinephiles in 2011 when Hungarian director Béla Tarr announced that The Turin Horse would be his last film. I...
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Tag: Tsai Ming-liang
Mainstream Slow Cinema
August 18, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Two terms that do not go together. I'm well aware of this. But a thought occurred to me last night, which, to be honest, has...
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More slow films for the world
July 27, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Finally, some slow news appear in the thick of the world wide web. First of all, Lav Diaz’s Norte was screened in Poland as part...
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Sweeping Generalisations
June 30, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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I'm getting the last things ready for the 10th MeCCSA PGN conference at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I will present a paper on...
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Slow Cinema at Cannes 2013
April 19, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Apichatpong’s victory over the recently more and more Americanised Cannes Festival happened before my time as a slow fanatic… So I see yesterday’s news as...
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Slow Cinema at the Museum!?
February 22, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Slow Cinema is often, wrongly, seen in terms of boredom. For me, this has two reasons. The first one is the term itself. In an...
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A matter of kinetics
February 17, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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I've mentioned in an earlier post that I intend to draw parallels between Slow Cinema and the static arts. I also established a link between...
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Diary of a Young Boy
February 2, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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This is the title of Tsai Ming-liang’s new film. There isn’t a lot of information out there. What I could find was that the film...
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The spirit of plastic arts
January 25, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Le cinéma incorpore le temps à l'espace. Mieux. Le temps, par lui, devient réellement une dimension de l'espace. (Cinema incorporates time to space. Through this,...
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Tsai Ming-Liang – Visage (2009)
January 12, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Let us recall some of the characteristics that are usually associated with Slow Cinema; unknown actors / actresses, tendency to frame characters in medium or...
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