Pebbles – P.S. Vinothraj (2021)
Blue skies. A tree branch blows ever so slightly in the wind. It’s peaceful and quiet. A bird lands on the branch and the scenery...
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Tag: emptiness
Iro – Hadi Mohaghegh (2018)
July 27, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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What should I do? Should I go or not go? An old man mumbles these words into his beard. With a slight hunchback and visibly...
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Solitude at the end of the world – Carlos Casas (2006)
May 4, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Perhaps, there is no better film right at this very moment than Carlos Casas’ Solitude at the end of the world. It’s been ten weeks...
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Knife in the Clear Water – Xuebo Wang (2016)
March 9, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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In 2011, Béla Tarr presented his last feature film, The Turin Horse. The film, in which he had stripped everything bare, contains a lot of...
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A Love Unknown – John Clang (2020)
February 26, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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There are films that you watch. And there are films that you feel. Both forms have been part of my life for quite some time...
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Self-Portrait: Sphinx at 47km – Zhang Mengqi (2017)
January 7, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Could it be that China currently has the single most promising output of contemporary Slow Cinema? I could, of course, be wrong. And yet it...
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Kaili Blues – Bi Gan (2015)
January 24, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It is impossible to retain a past thought, to seize a future thought, and even to hold onto a present thought. There couldn't be a...
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Landscape / Character
November 25, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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The end of the year proves to be busy, and it's not easy at the moment to sit down and watch a film. I hope...
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Pripyat – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1999)
August 9, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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A woman is walking through a dead landscape. Nature has taken over what Man has built. It's wilderness we see. "These wild apples grew after...
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Man With No Name – Wang Bing (2010)
May 14, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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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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