Man With No Name – Wang Bing (2010)
Anonymity and intimacy - these two characteristics work hand in hand in Wang Bing's Man With No Name (2010), which is a mere glimpse of the...
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Tag: sound
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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No Home Movie – Chantal Akerman (2015)
October 2, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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My journey through Chantal Akerman's filmography continues. It is haunting to do this with the knowledge that she committed suicide almost to the day two...
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Tremor – Annik Leroy (2017)
August 16, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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It was in the French national paper Libération that I first came across the work of Annik Leroy. I added a note to myself and thought...
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Straub-Huillet: what is film?
July 11, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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Thanks to a very good and impressive collection of DVDs in my local library/cultural centre, I had the chance to discover the works of Jean-Marie...
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Seaworld – Hing Tsang (2016)
June 2, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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!!! This film is now available on tao films !!! What I like about my job (is it even a job?) is that I always...
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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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The Multisensory Film Experience
January 5, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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If there is one thing that is visible in my research of the last three to four years, then it is my interest in why...
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Dead Slow Ahead – Mauro Herce (2015)
September 12, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I wonder whether the title of Mauro Herce's film is the most fitting of any slow film I have seen. I don't think you can...
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Transatlantique – Félix Dufour-Laperrière (2014)
July 16, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I love slow films for the very good reason that they stay with you, whether they're films about happy chaps (which is hardly ever the...
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