Man With No Name – Wang Bing (2010)
Anonymity and intimacy - these two characteristics work hand in hand in Wang Bing's Man With No Name (2010), which is a mere glimpse of the...
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Arresting trauma – Martti Helde’s In The Crosswinds (2014)
April 27, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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"On the night of 14 June 1941, more than 40,000 innocent people were deported from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The aim of this secret operation...
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Linefork – Vic Rawlings, Jeff Silva (2016)
April 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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Banjo. It's banjo. There have been several slow films, whose subjects have become iconic over time. I believe that if you mention "the horse" to...
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Fresh from the press: new books on Chantal Akerman
February 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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I took a literary journey through the works of Chantal Akerman thanks to two new books that have been published on her work. Not so...
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Slow reconciliation with nature
December 1, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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This morning, I left the house at 8 o'clock. I went to a bridge that is close to my flat and that overlooks the canal...
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Five – Abbas Kiarostami (2003)
October 12, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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The beach. A beach. Somewhere. It doesn't matter where we are, and Abbas Kiarostami knows this. What matters is his recording of the soothing and...
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Mrs Fang – Wang Bing (2017)
August 17, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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The winner of the Pardo D'oro at this year's Locarno Film Festival, and a brave decision of the festival jury headed by Olivier Assayas, if...
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Tremor – Annik Leroy (2017)
August 16, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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It was in the French national paper Libération that I first came across the work of Annik Leroy. I added a note to myself and thought...
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Jean-Paul Curnier’s writings on the image
August 9, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Something I genuinely love, now that I'm in France, is that I can walk into any book shop and I find amazing books that really...
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News from Home – Chantal Akerman (1977)
August 4, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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I'm slowly but surely diving more into Chantal Akerman's filmography. I believe that her work contains a lot that I have been interested in throughout...
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