Fate – Fred Kelemen (1994)
I was six years old. I just entered school, I was proud. It was an important day in an important year for me. I still...
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Tag: observation
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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Earth – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2019)
April 9, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Inland Sea – Kazuhiro Soda (2018)
February 16, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Spoon – Laila Pakalnina (2019)
January 23, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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The Tree – André Gil Mata (2018)
November 27, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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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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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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