About Endlessness – Roy Andersson (2019)
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....
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Tag: painting
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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Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
June 4, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It’s been weird lately. First, I struggled to find the time to watch films. I was immersed in books, really good ones, and I didn’t...
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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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Art and Therapy (Alain de Botton, John Armstrong, 2014)
March 28, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong had been on my list from the moment I saw it online. With my research...
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Book review: Contemporary art and time (2016)
March 14, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Towards the end of my PhD research, I noticed that quite a few interesting works in my area have been published by Presses Universitaires de...
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Adam’s Passion, or What is cinema?
September 25, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I can’t remember anymore in which context I saw the trailer for Adam’s Passion, a performance with music by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and stage design...
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Monochrome Painting and Slow Cinema
July 5, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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At the very beginning of my doctoral research, I linked Slow Cinema to static art, especially Chinese painting. Traditional Chinese painting, I found, had characteristics...
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André Bazin 2.0
March 6, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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This post may be a bit of a rumble rather than a coherent line of thought. But I want to jot down a couple of...
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