Year in Review 2022
The last time I published a post on this blog was to inform you all about a rather unpleasant development in my mind. I’m using...
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Tag: Zhao Liang
Human Condition(s) – NOW AVAILABLE
April 9, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Earth – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2019)
April 9, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Towards the end of the last decade, a new term made its way into public discourse: the anthropocene. Although this isn't entirely true. The term...
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Self-Portrait: Sphinx at 47km – Zhang Mengqi (2017)
January 7, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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Could it be that China currently has the single most promising output of contemporary Slow Cinema? I could, of course, be wrong. And yet it...
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Behemoth – Zhao Liang (2015)
March 14, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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How do you write about something that is, cinematographically, absolutely gorgeous but which, paradoxically in doing so, highlights the suffering of labourers? Behemoth by Chinese director Zhao...
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