Films Man With No Name – Wang Bing (2010) May 14, 2018 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment 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... Read More
Films Research Arresting trauma – Martti Helde’s In The Crosswinds (2014) April 27, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments "On the night of 14 June 1941, more than 40,000 innocent people were deported from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The aim of this secret operation... Read More
Films Linefork – Vic Rawlings, Jeff Silva (2016) April 10, 2018 by Nadin Mai No Comments Banjo. It's banjo. There have been several slow films, whose subjects have become iconic over time. I believe that if you mention "the horse" to... Read More
Books & Articles Fresh from the press: new books on Chantal Akerman February 10, 2018 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments 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... Read More
Literature Misc Austerlitz’s time January 11, 2018 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments What is Austerlitz's time, and where do I get this from? Well, I didn't expect my wanting to write a blog post about Jacques Austerlitz... Read More
Books & Articles Films Literature Year 2017 in review December 27, 2017 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments I'm not someone who likes lists, all sorts of The best films..., The worst films... etc I never saw a point of social media getting obsessed with... Read More
Books & Articles Jean-Paul Curnier’s writings on the image August 9, 2017 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films News from Home – Chantal Akerman (1977) August 4, 2017 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments I'm slowly but surely diving more into Chantal Akerman's filmography. I believe that her work contains a lot that I have been interested in throughout... Read More
Films Cochihza – Khristine Gillard (2013) July 21, 2017 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment It doesn't happen very often that I have to rewatch a film because I forgot about its contents. In fact, it never happened to the... Read More
Films Welfare – Frederick Wiseman (1975) June 29, 2017 by Nadin Mai No Comments In past years, several people have pointed out the work by Frederick Wiseman to me, in particular whenever I spoke of Lav Diaz and his... Read More