Films Earth – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2019) April 9, 2020 by Nadin Mai No Comments Towards the end of the last decade, a new term made its way into public discourse: the anthropocene. Although this isn't entirely true. The term... Read More
Films About Endlessness – Roy Andersson (2019) March 23, 2020 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments I'm unsure as to whether I could name a single living director, who speaks to me in a way Roy Andersson does at the moment.... Read More
Films Knife in the Clear Water – Xuebo Wang (2016) March 9, 2020 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment In 2011, Béla Tarr presented his last feature film, The Turin Horse. The film, in which he had stripped everything bare, contains a lot of... Read More
Films Inland Sea – Kazuhiro Soda (2018) February 16, 2020 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment How can we understand slow films? What do they show, what do they tell us? At some point during my (previously academic) research, I came... Read More
Books & Articles Organic Cinema – Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (2017) January 28, 2020 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments Slow Cinema polarises. Even though it is no longer as prominent as when Jonathan Romney published his Sight & Sound article in 2010, the debate... Read More
Films Spoon – Laila Pakalnina (2019) January 23, 2020 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment Before I say a single word about Laila Pakalnina’s new film Spoon (2019), I need to thank Elina Reitere and the Latvian Film Institute, who... Read More
Films Self-Portrait: Sphinx at 47km – Zhang Mengqi (2017) January 7, 2020 by Nadin Mai No Comments Could it be that China currently has the single most promising output of contemporary Slow Cinema? I could, of course, be wrong. And yet it... Read More
Books & Articles Films Misc Research 2019 – The Year in Review December 10, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments Another year comes to an end and perhaps you’re as tired of “end of year” lists as I am. Every December (and increasingly every November),... Read More
Films The Tree – André Gil Mata (2018) November 27, 2019 by Nadin Mai No Comments Tarkovskian. Tarr-esque. Filmind. André Gil Mata’s The Tree had me thinking a lot, had me admire what I saw and had me marvel over the... 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