Village of Women – Tamara Stepanyan (2019)
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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Tag: migration
Days – Tsai Ming-liang (2020)
August 11, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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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
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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I don’t want to sleep alone – Tsai Ming-liang (2006)
June 25, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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tao film selection and other news
September 17, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Welcome to a new selection tao films films for you, handpicked just for you 🙂 Before you dive into it, let me say that tao...
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Metropole – Ozal Emier and Virginie Le Borgne (2016)
January 23, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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!!! Now available for streaming on tao films until 30 March 2017 !!! A man walks up and down in his apartment. He appears nervous,...
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