Time and Memory

Time and Memory

2012 · 23 min · Documentary

A film essay that explores the relationship between film and memory, based on the personal memoir of the director. An autobiographical attempt to analyze this relationship going from the individual to the collective. From Chris Marker to Hitchcock and on to Kennedy´s assassination, passing through Fritz Lang and Bruce Willis, the memory of the images is fused with our own story, until they cannot be separated.

Directed by Santiago Torres

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