Films No Other Land – Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham (2024) June 20, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films IO Capitano – Matteo Garrone (2023) March 23, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Misc Mother, I’m suffocating June 11, 2023 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Conferences Films Papers Present. Past. – The Cinema of Lav Diaz September 12, 2020 by Nadin Mai 5 Comments 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... Read More
Films Horse Money – Pedro Costa (2014) April 18, 2016 by Nadin Mai 7 Comments 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... Read More
Research The weight of time October 20, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films Misc In defense of a lack of craft July 20, 2014 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments 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... Read More
Films Melancholia – Lav Diaz (2008) April 26, 2014 by Nadin Mai 11 Comments 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... Read More
Films Day 5 – Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Diaz) December 5, 2013 by Nadin Mai 19 Comments 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... Read More
Literature Research The Power of Time June 17, 2013 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More