Sometimes I think the unspoken law of this group is: for every research
question posed, the immediate answer is MEMENTO !?
Seriously: people have mentioned most of the classics of
film-and-memory: much Resnais (esp. JE T'AIME JE T'AIME, loosely remade
as EYERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND!), Nicholas Roeg, some Dennis
Potter, Tarkovsky, ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA ... and Abel Ferrara,
THE BLACKOUT is a masterpiece on this topic and should be read in
conjunction with Nicole Brenez's groundbreaking book ABEL FERRARA.
However, Bernd seems to be looking for more 'material' avant-garde
examples, not the usual tricksy-narrative fare (BLACKOUT straddles the
categories, as Brenez shows). Suggestions from Australia: the work of
Dirk de Bruyn, whose experimental work explores what trauma does to
memory; and Marcus Bergner, who made a film - painstakingly with
drawing frame by frame - called HISTORIC DISTURBANCE OF MEMORY. And
there must be much more world-wide, it is a major theme of the
avant-garde ...
Adrian
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