Category: Films

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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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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I have not been afraid of going blind for a long time – Yannick Mosimann (2021)

September 9, 2021

by Nadin Mai

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“That night the blind man dreamt that he was blind.” (José Saramago – Blindness) In José Saramago’s 1995 novel Blindness, a strange, unexplained blindness befalls...

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