migration – The Arts of (Slow) Cinema

Green Border – Agnieszka Holland (2023)

September 15, 2024

by Nadin Mai

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The history of Western encounters with ‘the other’ is a horrifying collection of oppression, colonisation, extermination; of seemingly intellectual debates about race and the superiority...

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The Landscape and the Fury – Nicole Vögele (2024)

June 15, 2024

by Nadin Mai

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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...

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IO Capitano – Matteo Garrone (2023)

March 23, 2024

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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...

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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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Days – Tsai Ming-liang (2020)

August 11, 2020

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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...

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Birha – Ekta Mittal (2018)

July 20, 2020

by Nadin Mai

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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,...

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Father and Sons – Wang Bing (2014)

June 15, 2020

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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...

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The suspended step of the stork – Theo Angelopoulos (1991)

November 13, 2019

by Nadin Mai

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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...

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Vitalina Varela – Pedro Costa (2019)

October 28, 2019

by Nadin Mai

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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...

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Abendland – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2011)

July 6, 2018

by Nadin Mai

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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...