Chantal Akerman’s journeys
When Chantal Akerman left us five years ago, her seemingly endless journey stopped. She had reached her destination, the last station on the line. Yes,...
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Tag: journey
Long Day’s Journey Into Night – Bi Gan (2018)
August 17, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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It has something bizarre to it. Seeing a film by Bi Gan, which defies any temporal and spatial orientation in the middle of a disorienting...
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Heimat is a space in time – Thomas Heise (2019)
September 5, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how to write something that would do justice to Thomas Heise’s Heimat is a space in time (2019). It...
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A Yangtze Landscape – Xu Xin (2017)
February 21, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There are films, which I’m grateful for. Grateful for being able to watch them, grateful for being able to write about them. Grateful for being...
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Elsewhere – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2000)
September 27, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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I have one specific sequence in my head, and what it shows and what is said doesn’t get any weaker with time. An elderly tribes...
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24 Frames – Abbas Kiarostami (2017)
August 22, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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One of the defining characteristics of Slow Cinema is that quite a number of films, in particular experimental films, question the difference between photography and...
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Three Sisters – Wang Bing (2012)
December 11, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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I become more and more a fan of Wang Bing. I’m making my way through his filmography in a random order, which is a shame,...
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Sixty Spanish Cigarettes – Mark John Ostrowski (2015, repost)
April 20, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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!!! This film is now available on tao films !!! There is something sublimely beautiful about Mark John Ostrowski’s film Sixty Spanish Cigarettes (2015). Fifteen...
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Sleep Has Her House – Scott Barley (2017)
February 1, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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!!! This film is now available on tao films till the end of March !!! It took me a long time to decide whether I...
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Where are you going? – Zhengfan Yang (2016)
February 8, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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If the film’s title were a question about the direction of the filmmaker, then I would respond to it with “higher and higher”. Where Are You...
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