Memory Film V

A short documentary by Levon Grigoryan about the making of Parajanov's «Sayat-Nova», or «The Colour of Pomegranates».

short Chris Marker-esque essay on Kershner's THE EYES OF LAURA MARS

Filmed over 5 years, and presented in 4 chapters, the film represents an evolution of in-camera transformations of the Mile End neighbourhood in Montreal.

The movie is about the Lokomo laborer, and group of friends that dreams come true and a thirst for fast-paced life that take decades.

With the journey of migrant labourers crossing into Malaya as a point of departure, Priyageetha Dia’s animated video attends to the sea as a speculative site of memory and remembrance. The Sea is a Blue Memory reconfigures colonial narratives of indenture, forming new imaginaries through the gaze of a wandering sea spirit.

A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road.

With the same intensity with which the flashing blue light illuminates its surroundings, fatal experiences are burned into the memory of an ambulance paramedic. The traumatic dimension of carrying out a profession that is essential for society is brought closer by the documentary confession of a man who sometimes unfortunately cannot save the lives of others.

Independently produced comedy about Mother Manka, a Slovenian housewife played by actor/director/screenwriter Saso Dzukic.

There is a moment in the lives of emperors, which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered, and the melancholy and relief of knowing we shall soon give up any thought of knowing and understanding them.

Discovering magical artifacts with powers to rewrite memories residing within a fabled abandoned house, Siblings Thun and Tan conceive a plan to rebuild their divorced parents long broken relationship to make the family whole again.

Thirty years after the 1991 Gulf War, a group of filmmakers who were children during the hostilities travel across Saudi Arabia, gathering stories that bring home the emotional and mental costs of living through that conflict. Thirteen stories mingle with snatches of old songs and some nostalgic images of the time, invoking memories of the good things of childhood as well as the horrors of war.

During the Second World War, a writer meets two young people, a girl and a boy, who are doing actions to undermine the fascist regime in power.

While evoking the language of film noir, Memories for a Private Eye investigates a personal archive, foregrounding a fictional detective—Marc McPhearson from Otto Preminger's Laura—to help unfold deep and traumatic memories.

A poetic refection on the exploitation of the water and hardrock mines in the Swiss Alps. Contemporary images and archives, documentary and fictional material immerge us in the geological and human memories that haunt the current extractive environments.

A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them. One of the girls in the group, Aseke, is killed on a mission and her friends decide to carry out the final request she made in her will. She had been brought up with a black horse, now in the remote Anatolian mountains, and her request is to bring the horse back so that they might meet one last time before she is buried. The arrival of the horse leads to some unexpected events.