There will be no more night — Eléonore Weber (2020)
Nights are coming early these days. With the end of daylight savings time (in the EU) two weeks ago, night comes even earlier now. In...
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Tag: Film
Machines — Rahul Jain (2016)
October 25, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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When I was in my first year at university, I took some introductory classes in media for my journalism degree, which I never pursued because...
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Chronicle of Space — Akshay Indikar (2020)
September 27, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Heavy rain. Thunder. Night. A dark, threatening night, which foreshadows what is to come. Yes, I’m back once more, back on the vast subcontinent that...
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A rifle and a bag — Arya Rothe, Cristina Hanes & Isabella Rinaldi (2020)
September 22, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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After an excursion to the Tamil region of India thanks to P.S. Vinothraj’s Pebbles (2021), I travelled further north this time to explore the life...
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Pebbles – P.S. Vinothraj (2021)
September 17, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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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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I have not been afraid of going blind for a long time – Yannick Mosimann (2021)
September 9, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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“That night the blind man dreamt that he was blind.” (José Saramago – Blindness) In José Saramago’s 1995 novel Blindness, a strange, unexplained blindness befalls...
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A river runs, turns, erases, replaces – Shengze Zhu (2021)
August 26, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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It’s been 18 months now that we are living with a virus that put our world upside down. Even though we are aware that we’re...
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Rumination
August 16, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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About three weeks ago, I started an introductory course in psychology. I felt the need to dive a little deeper into what I myself was...
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143 Rue du Desert – Hassen Ferhani (2020)
August 12, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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With all your efforts, you’re amongst the best people on the earth. I’m in Algeria. In the middle of nowhere. Along a road busy with...
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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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