The Memory Boom
What is inside the brain of a man whose memory is fading? Featuring anonymously donated, never-before-seen, decaying 16mm archive footage, the film blends documentary and scripted elements. Memory becomes film, and as th
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What is inside the brain of a man whose memory is fading? Featuring anonymously donated, never-before-seen, decaying 16mm archive footage, the film blends documentary and scripted elements. Memory becomes film, and as th
The bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, by a nation he knew only by name, thrust nine-year-old Minoru Fukushima into a world of racism so malevolent he would be forced to leave Canada, the land of his bir
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Dick Goin and his family have been fed by the Elwha River's salmon since migrating to Washington's Olympic Peninsula during the Dust Bowl. Dick has never forgotten his debt to the fish — who have been steadily disappeari
A split-screen animated film that explores the complex nature of memory in contemporary post-communist Romania. Using a collection of everyday, household objects as windows into the past, it features 16mm stop-motion ani
An array of colours, followed by nothing.
Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.
After 14 days of isolation in Japan, Sultan acquires his first ever camera to capture what remains of his feelings & thoughts from his time alone. As he reviews his footage, his audible written reflections unravel into
In my seemingly peaceful daily routine in London, my unconscious mind is always daydreaming about travelling around in China, a land where I was born and grew up, but has changed so dramatically that hard to recognize an
Unknown or forgotten by most Americans, the Korean War divided a people with several millenniums of shared history. Memory of Forgotten War conveys the human costs of military conflict through deeply personal accounts of
Varun's seemingly trivial choices cascade into a haunting symphony of consequences. Faced with a life-changing tragedy, he ventures into the enigmatic realms of time, desperate to rewrite destiny, but destiny has other p
We all have demons following us around. In the case of this anonymous individual, his demon is a lack of emotion. Via a real local radio interview, he tells us a harrowing story from his childhood.
Matriarch and Environmental Ambassador for the Ponca Nation, Casey Camp-Horinek takes us through the occupied territory of Ponca City, Oklahoma. Through the ancestral teachings of her Ponca culture, Casey has been protec
A documentary about the great 20th century Australian painter Sidney Nolan, and how his life was shaped by the three women he loved.
Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".
A film documenting the life of the martyr Majed Abu Sharar, who was assassinated in Rome in 1981. The film discusses his childhood, upbringing, and his work leading up to joining the Palestinian Revolution and leading it
This film features never-before-released footage from McCartney's "secret show" at the Electric Ballroom in London in June, 2007. The video portion of the package includes live performances of material from "Memory Almos
About memory and identity and the disintegration of both. "For it is hard to discover the winged vertebrates of prehistory embedded in tablets of slate. But if I see before me the nervature of past life in one imag
In war-scarred Kyiv, Crimean Tatar activists Zarema and Eskender Bariiev raise three children under missile fire while fighting to free their occupied homeland, Crimea. Between air raids, they campaign for political pris
Irina returns to Athens after long absence to find her step-brother. Her brother's friends, an American musician, a young Russian, a heritage-suitcase of her father and a series of odd events drift her into an inner jour