The Arts of (Slow) Cinema

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...

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...

Films

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...

Films

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...

Books & Articles

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,...

Films

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...

Films

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...

Films

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...

Films

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...

Films