trauma – The Arts of (Slow) Cinema

It is an enormous pleasure to announce that my monograph Human Condition(s) – An aesthetic if cinematic slowness is now available for purchase. I started...

Films

Notturno – Gianfranco Rosi (2020)

March 22, 2021

by Nadin Mai

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After the end credits of Gianfranco Rosi’s new film Notturno appeared on the screen, the blog post I had mentally written throughout the duration of...

Conferences Films Papers

Present. Past. – The Cinema of Lav Diaz

September 12, 2020

by Nadin Mai

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Yesterday, I presented a brief overview of the cinema of Filipino director Lav Diaz as part of a webinar on arthouse cinema, organised by the...

Films

Birha – Ekta Mittal (2018)

July 20, 2020

by Nadin Mai

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I have fallen in love. I have fallen in love with a film, with a filmmaker. I have fallen in love with a hypnotising atmosphere,...

Films

About Endlessness – Roy Andersson (2019)

March 23, 2020

by Nadin Mai

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I'm unsure as to whether I could name a single living director, who speaks to me in a way Roy Andersson does at the moment....

Films

Ausma – Laila Pakalnina (2015)

October 8, 2019

by Nadin Mai

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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...