Human Condition(s) – NOW AVAILABLE
It is an enormous pleasure to announce that my monograph Human Condition(s) – An aesthetic if cinematic slowness is now available for purchase. I started...
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Tag: loneliness
Solitude at the end of the world – Carlos Casas (2006)
May 4, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Perhaps, there is no better film right at this very moment than Carlos Casas’ Solitude at the end of the world. It’s been ten weeks...
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The Red Turtle – Michaël Dudok de Wit (2016)
January 5, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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I believe this is the first animation film that I'm mentioning on this blog. I haven't heard a lot about slow animation before, nor am...
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Bitter Money – Wang Bing (2016)
June 14, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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I don't know whether it's only my perception of it or whether there is indeed a real surge of interest in the films of Wang...
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Osmosis – Nasos Karabelas (2016)
March 2, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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!!! This film is available on tao films until the end of March 2017 !!! And there he stands, a ruin forgotten by everyone –...
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Homo Sapiens – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2016)
June 21, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Who, or maybe what, is Homo Sapiens? Wise man, they say. But is Homo Sapiens just that? Does Homo Sapiens stand entirely for the human...
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Silence in Dreamland – Tito Molina (2013)
October 30, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I know exactly where to put Ecuador on the map. Unfortunately, I do not know where to put Ecuador on the map of world cinema....
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Fogo – Yulene Olaizola (2012)
June 14, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Have I ever mentioned that I love my "job"? It makes me really happy to discover all those talented, yet unknown directors from all over...
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Day 18 – Inori (Gonzales-Rubio)
December 18, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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If my memory doesn't trick me, then this is a premier for me: a slow film set in Japan. Not really made by a Japanese...
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Day 8 – Vive l’Amour (Ming-liang)
December 8, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Time for a bit of love on the second advent. Or maybe not, because Tsai Ming-liang's Vive l'Amour (1994) is, as all of his other films, not...
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