Films Burial – Emilija Škarnulytė (2022) May 11, 2023 by Nadin Mai 6 Comments When I saw Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s superb documentary Homo Sapiens, I reflected upon the legacy we, Homo sapiens, would leave behind. Our legacy isn’t as magnificent... Read More
Films Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund (2022) March 17, 2023 by Nadin Mai No Comments There was a moment in Ruben Östlund’s new film Triangle of Sadness when I needed to get up and walk around. It felt as though... Read More
Films Matter out of Place – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2022) March 10, 2023 by Nadin Mai No Comments The ocean. Clear blue-turquoise water. A beautiful beach, sand whose softness one can feel by simply looking at it. A palm tree. It’s quiet, it’s... Read More
Films Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi (2022) February 8, 2023 by Nadin Mai No Comments It’s been quiet around Iran for many weeks now. When the young Mahsa Amin died at the hands of the country’s moral police, the support... Read More
Films Misc Year in Review 2022 December 22, 2022 by Nadin Mai 5 Comments 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... Read More
Films Longing in times of social distancing October 11, 2022 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films Feathers – Omar El Zohairy (2021) September 14, 2022 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films A Vanishing Fog – Augusto Sandino (2021) September 5, 2022 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films A Night of Knowing Nothing – Payal Kapadia (2021) August 24, 2022 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films Research Apichatpong’s shamanic journeys July 7, 2022 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More