Year in Review 2022
The last time I published a post on this blog was to inform you all about a rather unpleasant development in my mind. I’m using...
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Category: Films
Longing in times of social distancing
October 11, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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The following was written for a project filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, who dreamt of putting together a magazine he would call MEAT and which would...
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Feathers – Omar El Zohairy (2021)
September 14, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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I’m thinking of Wang Bing. I’m thinking of Pedro Costa. I’m thinking of Tarkovsky’s Stalker who gets up from his bed in the morning. I’m...
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A Vanishing Fog – Augusto Sandino (2021)
September 5, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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How can we understand what is happening around us? How can we make sense of Planet Earth burning in front of our eyes? Can we...
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A Night of Knowing Nothing – Payal Kapadia (2021)
August 24, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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Two or three weeks after the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine, I fell into a deep depression, which I haven’t quite left behind...
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Apichatpong’s shamanic journeys
July 7, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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I see a little boy. He stands on one leg. He wears shorts and a short-sleeved chequered shirt. He holds up one of his hands...
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The Metamorphosis of Birds – Catarina Vasconcelos (2020)
May 26, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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Earth is the centre of the universe. Everything else revolves around this beautiful planet that carries so much life, so much beauty, so much mystery....
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Mariupolis – Mantas Kvedaravicius (2016)
May 1, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, a lot of questions were running around in my head. Some questions were existential, they were linked to what...
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Ballad of a White Cow — Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha (2020)
March 17, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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It’s like a dream. Or a nightmare. It’s mysterious, ominous. We’re in the centre of a prison court. The concrete walls are lined with male...
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Faya Dayi — Jessica Beshir (2021)
March 5, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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There is a dream at the centre of Jessica Beshir’s Faya Dayi, a dream that is both magical and cruel; a dream which carries us...
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