Films The Landscape and the Fury – Nicole Vögele (2024) June 15, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments Les spectres de l’Europe, ce ne sont donc pas exactement ces gens « séculaires et sacrés », vêtus d’imperméables en plastiques et qui tentent de... Read More
Films IO Capitano – Matteo Garrone (2023) March 23, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments We speak about colonialism, about the extermination of native peoples, about the enslavement of black people as if all of this was history, as if... Read More
Films Village of Women – Tamara Stepanyan (2019) March 10, 2021 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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,... Read More
Films Days – Tsai Ming-liang (2020) August 11, 2020 by Nadin Mai No Comments When Kang, played by Lee Kang-sheng, crosses a busy road, holding his head with his left hand, his neck being stabilised by a brace, there... Read More
Films Birha – Ekta Mittal (2018) July 20, 2020 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment I have fallen in love. I have fallen in love with a film, with a filmmaker. I have fallen in love with a hypnotising atmosphere,... Read More
Films Father and Sons – Wang Bing (2014) June 15, 2020 by Nadin Mai No Comments Over several years, Wang Bing has built up a library of films about migration. We tend to understand migration as a movement of people. It... Read More
Films The suspended step of the stork – Theo Angelopoulos (1991) November 13, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments There is perhaps no better time for beginning to watch Theo Angelopoulos’ Border trilogy than now. On Saturday, we commemorated the 30th anniversary of the... Read More
Films Vitalina Varela – Pedro Costa (2019) October 28, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments It is difficult, if not impossible, to think of a woman in film, who has such a magical, such an overpowering aura around her as... Read More
Films Abendland – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2011) July 6, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments The first time I came across the work of Nikolaus Geyrhalter was when I watched his absolutely superb Homo Sapiens, which was so rich, so affective... Read More
Films I don’t want to sleep alone – Tsai Ming-liang (2006) June 25, 2018 by Nadin Mai 6 Comments I discovered Tsai Ming-liang's films early on in my research into Slow Cinema, or even well before I started my PhD. The director from Taiwan... Read More