About Memory and Loss (2022)

Original title

Notes sur la mémoire et l’oubli

Directed by

Amélie Hardy

Genre

documentary film, experimental film

Country

Canada

Runtime

8 min

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary explores how societies choose what to remember and what to forget from the past. It reflects on the decision-making behind preserving or discarding cultural history.

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What happens

About Memory and Loss (French: Notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Amélie Hardy and released in 2022. Based on Rafaële Germain's non-fiction essay Un présent infini: notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli, the film is a meditation on the cultural process of deciding what elements of history to preserve and archive for posterity, and what elements of history to discard. The film premiered at the 2022 Festival du nouveau cinéma. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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