In this zine I will investigate the representation of time in cinema by focusing on what lies at the intersection of time and nostalgia within art house cinema. Each section has been written as stand-alone essays which individually address smaller topics within the umbrella theme of the representation of time in cinema. I have put a lot of thought into the materiality and construction of this zine as well. This zine is made in an accordion style which allows for the reader to experience it front to back and vice versa, creating a loop that does not have to be linear but also is continuous. Along with these texts are images, both from my research on the topic and other art house films that address time differently than the ordinary Hollywood blockbuster would. In this zine you will find an introduction that consists of what I believe lies at the intersection of nostalgia, art house cinema, and time, next we will focus on what all these terms mean and how they can be used together to create unconventional narratives, and finally we will look at how all of these topics come together and interplay in films such as Wong Kar-Wai’s 2000 romance drama In the Mood for Love, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1975 drama Mirror, and Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 magical realism drama Dreams. My hope is that you, the reader, who is holding this zine will find yourself venturing through the different sections, going forwards, backwards and, hopefully completely out of order, finding something interesting that you may not have thought about before. The way in which I have laid out my zine is purposeful to mirror my thesis of what is at intersection of time, nostalgia, and art house cinema?
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