Gropius Memory Palace

Name: Gropius Memory Palace
Director: Ben Thorp Brown
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-11-17
Cast: Daniel Ryan

2017 · 20 min · Documentary

Through a guided meditation performed by a hypnotherapist, viewers are invited to construct a 'memory palace' as they experience Walter Gropius's iconic Fagus Factory. The film offers an opportunity to soothe anxieties around technology's effects on the body and workplace, and to consider the relationship between memory and architecture.

Directed by Ben Thorp Brown

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The main protagonist of the film is a tortoise; an ancient animal that embodies Cura, the Roman goddess of care, voiced by American vocalist Joan La Barbara. The setting is Richard and Dion Neutra's VDL Research House II in Los Angeles. Architect Neutra carefully designed his projects to elicit human sensory and emotional responses.

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