Longing in times of social distancing
The following was written for a project filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, who dreamt of putting together a magazine he would call MEAT and which would...
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Tag: longing
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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Village of Women – Tamara Stepanyan (2019)
March 10, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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In Wang Bing’s Three Sisters (2012), three young children are left to their own devices. The mother left the family to live with another man,...
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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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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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Day 24 – Surprise (me)
December 24, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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I finish this year’s advent calendar with a self-experiment in slow-filmmaking. It’s one thing to watch slow films all the time. But as I was...
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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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