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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Turtle Rock – Xiao Xiao, Lin Lin (2017)
January 13, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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In Europe, Germany counts as a rather large country. With over 80 million inhabitants, I have countless fellows. There are so many areas and regions...
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Year in Review 2021
December 22, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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On 31 December 2020, in the evening, I went to bed. For the first time in my (adult) life, I didn’t stay up until midnight...
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Forthcoming Arabic Publication
December 15, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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I believe that it was in February 2020 that I found a tempting email in my inbox. A publisher based in the United Arab Emirates...
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Memoria – Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2021)
November 25, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Life is experiential. Every life is an experience. What sounds pretty simple, is incredibly difficult to acknowledge. Really acknowledge, take it in, and live by...
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There will be no more night — Eléonore Weber (2020)
November 17, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Nights are coming early these days. With the end of daylight savings time (in the EU) two weeks ago, night comes even earlier now. In...
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Machines — Rahul Jain (2016)
October 25, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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When I was in my first year at university, I took some introductory classes in media for my journalism degree, which I never pursued because...
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Avoir le temps – Pascal Chabot (2021)
October 13, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Especially since the widespread use of smartphones and social media, life feels extremely fast. Notifications from all kind of apps take over our phone screen,...
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Chronicle of Space — Akshay Indikar (2020)
September 27, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Heavy rain. Thunder. Night. A dark, threatening night, which foreshadows what is to come. Yes, I’m back once more, back on the vast subcontinent that...
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A rifle and a bag — Arya Rothe, Cristina Hanes & Isabella Rinaldi (2020)
September 22, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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After an excursion to the Tamil region of India thanks to P.S. Vinothraj’s Pebbles (2021), I travelled further north this time to explore the life...
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Pebbles – P.S. Vinothraj (2021)
September 17, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Blue skies. A tree branch blows ever so slightly in the wind. It’s peaceful and quiet. A bird lands on the branch and the scenery...
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