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"When I was 9 my father took me to see a public execution in Iran. This film is an effort to re-create and recapture that brutal memory." (P.K.)

‘Memory Foam Material’ gives a hyperreal interpretation of geek culture and its on and offline ephemera. MacBook chargers, ramen bowls, pinkish pop bags, and shiny metallic figures appear strewn across the floor, some frozen in mid-air with a slow pan over their details. In the press release, Soulat states the video alludes to the Japanese concept of acute social withdrawal, hikikomori; moreover, she explores the implications of isolation, suggesting the mind-altering influence prolonged confinement has on perception.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Her husband was just what she was not, cold and brutal and even a little criminal. He earned his living in God knows what way, but once he boldly boasted that he and a confederate was to rob a house. She pleaded with him to forsake the dishonest plan, but he laughed and hurled her aside. She sobbed and begged, but he merely enjoyed her tears, and left the house. Outside he met his accomplice. The little wife followed him, caught up with him on the corner, and again pleaded with him to return home. In his rage he turned and struck her on the head. The woman fell and did not rise again. The two ran off. A little later she was found lying there by a farmer and his wife, who revived her. She did not know who or what she was. Her memory was a complete blank.

A forgotten person faces the material disappearance of what it passed. Oblivion gradually consumes everything, destroying every possible illusion of eternity. In memory of those who no longer exist, neither as a face, nor in our memories, nor in a short film.

An attempt at coming to terms with memories of a lost home.

Melanie returns to Hong Kong as filmmaker-in-residence at a university after living abroad for decades. She tries to redefine her cultural roots and affiliations. Niki is making a documentary film about their family’s migration from China to their Hakka village. Melanie and Niki Both realise they are living with an original “molecule” that can’t be erased even after generations of dilution, the so-called “Memory of Water.”

In Living Memory is a bittersweet dialogue between father and daughter, challenging traditional notions of remembering and forgetting. This video explores the loving and sometimes stormy relationship between the two and explores the father's life as an artist and communist, who at age 93, is losing his memory.

An attempt to recapture the magic of childhood as the cameras follow children at play.

A series of moments captured in room 139. Intimate spaces of time spent with my grandmother, Margaret during a month long recovery in a rehabilitation center in Baltimore, Maryland.

The 1940's: A young cadet drafted to war and a woman drafted to poverty both struggle to find their identities against the hardships and villains of the day in this sentimental tribute to the bygone era of silent film.

A young man visits the memory booth to recall his childhood and the accident in which he lost his parents during a journey to a beach house.

A daughter explores her mother's Vietnamese immigration story in the wake of the closure of their nail salon.

The film deals with the manipulation of history in the context of the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace. Reenactments of iconic political and cultural events on the original balcony raise questions about authenticity and manipulation.

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.

Maybury's significant contribution to experimental film and video becomes apparent through a complex reworking of his own archive footage. "The film's attempt to re-create an acid trip is showcased in this creature's dance: whenever she moves, a rainbow of colors and shapes appear, as if her appendages are the artist's brushes". (Gary Morris)

A reconstruction of the history of South Africa’s first opera company, Eoan, and an exercise in getting at the truth, not only showing what it meant to be "a colored" during the apartheid regime, but also evoking the painful memories of that time. Interviews with former members of Eoan, photos, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, archive footage of opera performances and street scenes featuring the residents of District 6 in Cape Town give an impression of the world in which these people lived. By paying attention to the way in which the documentary was made – to questions that were not asked and answers that were not officially given – the painful truth behind the images and faces is gradually revealed.

An attempt to understand who Eleanor Kluytman was before Alzheimer’s disease usurped her life. This personal documentary was filmed from 2004-2007 and incorporates 8mm home videos from the 1950s through early 1980s, shot in North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia.

An experimental exploration of past memories using both surreal video footage and original photography.