Wang Bing – The walking eye (2021)
I wished it was me who had the idea for this brilliant title. Sadly, I only managed to use “the camera as eye” at some...
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Heimat is a space in time – Thomas Heise (2019)
September 5, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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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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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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Le passeur de temps – Sylviane Agacinski (2000)
October 18, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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More often than not, book flea markets are the best way to find gems that you might not find in book shops (anymore). Very old...
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24 Frames – Abbas Kiarostami (2017)
August 22, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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One of the defining characteristics of Slow Cinema is that quite a number of films, in particular experimental films, question the difference between photography and...
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Phantom Islands – Rouzbeh Rashidi (2018)
February 21, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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What happens if you plan to write a post on a film that you have been sent to, but find yourself at a loss for...
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Fresh from the press: new books on Chantal Akerman
February 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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I took a literary journey through the works of Chantal Akerman thanks to two new books that have been published on her work. Not so...
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Uzak – Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2002)
September 23, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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One of the three films I recently bought with the support of my patrons is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Uzak, a film from 2002 and, even though...
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Mrs Fang – Wang Bing (2017)
August 17, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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The winner of the Pardo D'oro at this year's Locarno Film Festival, and a brave decision of the festival jury headed by Olivier Assayas, if...
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Jean-Paul Curnier’s writings on the image
August 9, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Something I genuinely love, now that I'm in France, is that I can walk into any book shop and I find amazing books that really...
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