Heimat is a space in time – Thomas Heise (2019)
I've been thinking a lot about how to write something that would do justice to Thomas Heise's Heimat is a space in time (2019). It...
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Season of the Devil – Lav Diaz (2018)
August 23, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Those of you who have been with me for a couple of years already know that I have been a huge Lav Diaz fan. Melancholia,...
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Afternoon – Tsai Ming-liang (2016)
August 6, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Does this conversation have to be so miserable? Tsai Ming-liang asks. His two-hour long conversation with his fetish actor Lee Kang-sheng, Afternoon, will perhaps remain...
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Time in Japanese art and society
July 30, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Those of you who have been with me for a while will remember that I used to be very keen on establishing a link between...
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Memory of Time – HeeWon Lee (Rennes, 2019)
July 19, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It is possibly the first time that I'm writing about a specific video installation here on this blog. I have read quite a bit during...
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Chantal Akerman – Afterlives (Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson, 2019)
July 5, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Afterlives. The title of the new English-language book on Akerman's work, edited by Marion Schmid and Emma Wilson, is poignant, painful even, but perhaps the...
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Escaping time
June 24, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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I didn't expect my thinking about the possibility of escaping time. It's one of those age-old science-fiction dreams that people have. Time travel is perhaps...
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Walden – Daniel Zimmermann (2018)
June 17, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Not so long ago, I picked up Henry David Thoreau's book Walden. Published in the middle of the 19th century, it is now something of...
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Wang Bing – Un geste documentaire de notre temps (Antony Fiant, 2019)
June 7, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It's been quite a while since I have reviewed a book. This was primarily down to my not finding the right ones, or my waiting...
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By the name of Tania – Mary Jimenez, Bénédicte Liénard (2019)
May 17, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Since the Industrial Revolution, children have been massively exploited for work. Even though nation states regulated child labour, there is still a lot of work...
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