A Night of Knowing Nothing – Payal Kapadia (2021)
Two or three weeks after the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine, I fell into a deep depression, which I haven’t quite left behind...
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Year in Review 2021
December 22, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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On 31 December 2020, in the evening, I went to bed. For the first time in my (adult) life, I didn’t stay up until midnight...
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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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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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Interview with Michela Occhipinti
March 14, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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In 2010, filmmaker Michela Occhipinti made the brilliant and yet subtle slow film Letters from the Desert – Eulogy to Slowness. I have reviewed the film...
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Eulogy to Slowness
September 29, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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I was fortunate enough to be able to watch Letters from the Desert (Eulogy to Slowness) yesterday. It's a poetic documentary by Italian director Michela...
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