VoD platform tao films VoD – Full short film programme September 19, 2016 by Nadin Mai No Comments As promised a little earlier this month, here’s the full short film programme for the launch of tao films VoD. The streaming will commence on... Read More
Films Là-bas (Chantal Akerman, 2006) August 5, 2016 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments Là-bas. Down there. Down there has many meanings in this film of Chantal Akerman, her first, last and only film set in Israel. Down there... Read More
Films Horse Money – Pedro Costa (2014) April 18, 2016 by Nadin Mai 7 Comments It's kind of sad that you have to wait almost two years for a brilliant film to cross your way. I missed Pedro Costa's new... Read More
Films Havarie – Philip Scheffner (2016) March 3, 2016 by Nadin Mai No Comments What does the word "havarie" actually stand for? Originally, it is linked to ships, speaking of accidents, emergencies, and shipwrecks. But we can draw the... Read More
Films Hele sa hiwagang hapis – Lav Diaz (2016) February 18, 2016 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment Well, he did it again, and Lav Diaz's Berlinale entry Hele sa hiwagang hapis is, at the same time, his longest film since his nine-hour... Read More
Books & Articles Films Literature The aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz January 19, 2016 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments Now that the PhD has been awarded, I’m happy to make my thesis, the first coherent study of the films of Lav Diaz, available for... Read More
Interviews Plenty questions for…Lav Diaz January 15, 2016 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Conferences Festivals Films Research Venues for Lav Diaz film strand wanted June 8, 2015 by Nadin Mai No Comments Now that my thesis is almost on the way to the printer, I can start focusing on other things. After three years of research, I... Read More
Films Breaking: Lav Diaz film available for streaming on Mubi April 23, 2015 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments A brief blog post to say that Lav Diaz’s Locarno winning film From What Is Before (2014) is now available for streaming on MUBI (globally) for... Read More
Research Death Time April 2, 2015 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments Oh yes, a cheery title for this blog post. I apologise. But this only comes because of an email I received from one of my... Read More