Art of Memory

Art of Memory

1987
37m
6.0

6.0/10

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Overview

Manipulating a variety of sources, Vasulka uses creative imaging tools to situate historical images against Southwestern landscapes of incredible beauty. Contorting the images into a variety of isomorphic forms, Vasulka creates a literal shape for these memories, developing these shapes as metaphors for the processes of fragmentation, condensation, and inversion, that inevitably contort fact into memory. While much of the raw material for the tape is drawn from World War II and its rehearsals, the Spanish Civil War and the Russian Revolution, The Art of Memory is really an extended meditation seeking to reconcile the blurry, banal photographs of historic figures with the mass destruction they helped engineer.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English German Russian Spanish

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Quick Facts

Release Date October 22, 1987
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt5123736

Cast

Daniel Nagrin
Daniel Nagrin

Doris Cross
Doris Cross

Voices (voice)

Key Crew

Woody Vasulka
Director