Earth – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2019)
Towards the end of the last decade, a new term made its way into public discourse: the anthropocene. Although this isn’t entirely true. The term has been in use for quite some time, but it…
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The year after Dayton – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1997)
Since summer last year, I have slowly but surely made my way through the filmography of Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter, who I have started to perceive as one of the most important filmmakers working today….
Pripyat – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1999)
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 the accident. There weren’t apples here before,” she says while…
Plenty questions for…Lav Diaz
Guernica magazine has published my interview with Lav Diaz today, which I conducted in November 2015 during the retrospective of his work at Jeu de Paume (and later the the Cinematek in Brussels). Here’s an…
10 questions for… Jenni Olson
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a few thoughts on Jenni Olson’s The Royal Road, which is a wonderful piece. I hope you can see it on a big screen some day. Jenni has kindly agreed…
Interview with Suranga Katugampala (2015)
A couple weeks ago, I posted a few comments about a short film I was sent through my Facebook page. Son of the lovely capitalism by Suranga Katugampala was an aesthetically striking and haunting piece. I…
Interview with Lav Diaz (Extracts, Part III)
This is the third and last installment of my interview with Lav Diaz. Parts I and II can be found here and here. I have more material, but it needs to be incorporated into my…
Interview with Lav Diaz (Extracts, Part II)
This is the second part of my rather long interview with Lav Diaz, conducted at the Locarno Film Festival. You can find the first part here. — Nadin Mai: What I find interesting is that…
Interview with Lav Diaz (Extracts, Part I)
I conducted quite a long interview with Lav Diaz at the Locarno Film Festival, where his new film Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon ran in competition and won the Golden Leopard; a big achievement…
Interview with Yulene Olaizola (Fogo)
My thanks goes out to Yulene Olaizola, who has kindly agreed to this brief email interview. Her film Fogo (2012) is a fascinating portrait of a fading landscape and its people. Especially her accounts on…