Days – Tsai Ming-liang (2020)
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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Tag: poetry
The Red Turtle – Michaël Dudok de Wit (2016)
January 5, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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I believe this is the first animation film that I’m mentioning on this blog. I haven’t heard a lot about slow animation before, nor am...
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Homo Sapiens – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2016)
June 21, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Who, or maybe what, is Homo Sapiens? Wise man, they say. But is Homo Sapiens just that? Does Homo Sapiens stand entirely for the human...
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Alimuom – Benjamin Agusan (poetry)
March 6, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Benjamin Agusan is a fictional poet in Lav Diaz’s Death in the Land of Encantos (2007). A great poet on the verge of losing his sanity. He...
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Is Lav Diaz is literati?
February 19, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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This post wraps up my brief excursion to the far-away lands of China, and my somewhat exotic reading of Slow Cinema. What remains is one...
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Day 9 – Journey on the Plain (Tarr)
December 9, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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It was new to me that Béla Tarr directed a short film called Journey on the Plain in 1995, a year after the release of his...
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Poetic Cinema
September 19, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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I have recently watched Jia Zhang-ke’s wonderful and impressive piece I Wish I Knew (2010), and a thought popped into my head. First of all,...
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