IO Capitano – Matteo Garrone (2023)
We speak about colonialism, about the extermination of native peoples, about the enslavement of black people as if all of this was history, as if...
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Tag: torture
Austerlitz’s time
January 11, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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The concentrationary universe in the films of Lav Diaz (paper)
September 8, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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RPG Conference, University of Stirling, 4 September 2014 Introduction At the end of 1943, Primo Levi, a trained chemist from Italy, was arrested, and a...
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In defense of a lack of craft
July 20, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I read a rather irritating article about Lav Diaz's Norte, written by Adrian Martin for the Sight & Sound magazine. His reading of the film...
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Death in the Land of Encantos – Lav Diaz (2007)
March 5, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I believe that I keep mentioning this film, but I have never really made a proper (blog) case out of it. So let's go into...
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