Ancient Soul – Alvaro Gurrea (2021)
I am often amazed at the films that are being made across the world. They can be so simple and yet so powerful. Slow films,...
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Tag: documentary
Present Tense – Time and Duration in Contemporary Contemplative Cinema
April 30, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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As I’m recovering (slowly, very slowly) from the intense beginning of the year, which involved publishing a book, writing a book chapter for a Spanish-language...
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Notturno – Gianfranco Rosi (2020)
March 22, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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After the end credits of Gianfranco Rosi’s new film Notturno appeared on the screen, the blog post I had mentally written throughout the duration of...
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Village of Women – Tamara Stepanyan (2019)
March 10, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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In Wang Bing’s Three Sisters (2012), three young children are left to their own devices. The mother left the family to live with another man,...
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Memory Exercises — Paz Encina (2016)
February 1, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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A woman on a train with children. A dictatorship. 35 years. The control. And the exile. That’s the first image they left me with. Paraguay....
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Birha – Ekta Mittal (2018)
July 20, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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I have fallen in love. I have fallen in love with a film, with a filmmaker. I have fallen in love with a hypnotising atmosphere,...
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Self Portrait: Window in 47km – Zhang Mengqi (2019)
June 29, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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In recent months and years, I have come across quite a substantial number of strong, independent slow films from China. Of course, Wang Bing remains...
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Father and Sons – Wang Bing (2014)
June 15, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Over several years, Wang Bing has built up a library of films about migration. We tend to understand migration as a movement of people. It...
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Tarr Béla, I used to be a filmmaker – Jean-Marc Lamoure (2013)
May 18, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Those who have been with me over the years know how much I admire the work of Béla Tarr. It is not only the films...
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Earth – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2019)
April 9, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Towards the end of the last decade, a new term made its way into public discourse: the anthropocene. Although this isn't entirely true. The term...
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