Ausma – Laila Pakalnina (2015)
How does one handle a film, which so strikingly resembles human memory, in particular traumatic memory? The Baltic states have had a tumultuous history, most...
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A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on cinema
September 11, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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It's been almost a year that I have seen Roy Andersson's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), a film I remember was...
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Malaventura – Michel Lipkes (2011)
November 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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The last day in the life of an elderly man - this is the entire premise of Michel Lipkes' wonderful debut feature. Once more, I...
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D’Est – Chantal Akerman (1993)
October 29, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Chantal Akerman's D'est is a great example of Slow Cinema, and for those who do not feel prepared to start with eight hours Lav Diaz,...
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Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy
October 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I set up this blog in the autumn of 2012, at the start of my doctoral research. It's funny just how much the original subject...
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Death Time
April 2, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Oh yes, a cheery title for this blog post. I apologise. But this only comes because of an email I received from one of my...
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Book Review: Das Innen im Außen – Bernhard Hetzenauer (2013)
January 8, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Bernhard Hentzenauer's book on Béla Tarr, Das Innen im Aussen: Béla Tarr, Jacques Lacan und der Blick, makes me glad that I'm a German native,...
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Review: The Cinema of Béla Tarr – András Bálint Kovács
April 19, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Kovács' book is not the first book on Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Jacques Rancière has equally published a book, though rather slim, about Tarr, titled...
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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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Day 7 – Los Muertos (Alonso)
December 7, 2013
by Nadin Mai
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Et voila, I am back on the South American continent, in Argentina to be exact. Lisandro Alonso is for me a special slow-film director. Not...
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