No Other Land – Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham (2024)
It’s a sign of the times that the few film reviews I wrote since the beginning of the year dealt with Israel and Palestine. For...
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Tag: colonialism
IO Capitano – Matteo Garrone (2023)
March 23, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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We speak about colonialism, about the extermination of native peoples, about the enslavement of black people as if all of this was history, as if...
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Mother, I’m suffocating
June 11, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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Some of you may remember that I was working on my first political essay following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I had made it available earlier...
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Present. Past. – The Cinema of Lav Diaz
September 12, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Yesterday, I presented a brief overview of the cinema of Filipino director Lav Diaz as part of a webinar on arthouse cinema, organised by the...
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Horse Money – Pedro Costa (2014)
April 18, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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It's kind of sad that you have to wait almost two years for a brilliant film to cross your way. I missed Pedro Costa's new...
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The weight of time
October 20, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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If you study Slow Cinema, or time in film in more general terms, you cannot avoid reading Mary Ann Doane's The Emergence of Cinematic Time...
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In defense of a lack of craft
July 20, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I read a rather irritating article about Lav Diaz's Norte, written by Adrian Martin for the Sight & Sound magazine. His reading of the film...
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Melancholia – Lav Diaz (2008)
April 26, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I have seen Lav Diaz's Melancholia three times so far. As it's time for a new chapter now, it's also time for a brief post...
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Day 5 – Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Diaz)
December 5, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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I admit that I have cheated a bit. I didn't watch the whole six hours in one go. Not the second time. I did so...
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The Power of Time
June 17, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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People who prefer slowness in their lives argue that we're all slaves of the clock. Those who can't live without the constant rush of adrenaline...
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