Taming the Garden – Salomé Jashi (2021)
A wide open space. Almost everything is tainted in a dull blue. The sky and the sea are like identical twins that are difficult to...
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Tag: life
Memoria – Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2021)
November 25, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Life is experiential. Every life is an experience. What sounds pretty simple, is incredibly difficult to acknowledge. Really acknowledge, take it in, and live by...
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Avoir le temps – Pascal Chabot (2021)
October 13, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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Especially since the widespread use of smartphones and social media, life feels extremely fast. Notifications from all kind of apps take over our phone screen,...
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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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About Endlessness – Roy Andersson (2019)
March 23, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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I’m unsure as to whether I could name a single living director, who speaks to me in a way Roy Andersson does at the moment....
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Your Face – Tsai Ming-liang (2018)
September 23, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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When have you last looked at someone? I mean, really looked at someone, took your time to study every detail. I remember this marvellous shot...
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Escaping time
June 24, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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I didn’t expect my thinking about the possibility of escaping time. It’s one of those age-old science-fiction dreams that people have. Time travel is perhaps...
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Almost There – Jacqueline Zünd (2016)
September 17, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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A caravan in the centre of the frame. An empty parking lot. The caravan neatly divides the frame into two equal parts. It’s a beautiful...
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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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A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on cinema
September 11, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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It’s been almost a year that I have seen Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), a film I remember was...
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