Films Man With No Name – Wang Bing (2010) May 14, 2018 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment 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... Read More
Films Research Arresting trauma – Martti Helde’s In The Crosswinds (2014) April 27, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments "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... Read More
Films Linefork – Vic Rawlings, Jeff Silva (2016) April 10, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Books & Articles Fresh from the press: new books on Chantal Akerman February 10, 2018 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments 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... Read More
Research Slow reconciliation with nature December 1, 2017 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films Five – Abbas Kiarostami (2003) October 12, 2017 by Nadin Mai 5 Comments 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... Read More
Films Mrs Fang – Wang Bing (2017) August 17, 2017 by Nadin Mai 5 Comments 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... Read More
Films Tremor – Annik Leroy (2017) August 16, 2017 by Nadin Mai 7 Comments 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... Read More
Books & Articles Jean-Paul Curnier’s writings on the image August 9, 2017 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films News from Home – Chantal Akerman (1977) August 4, 2017 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments 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... Read More