Art of Memory

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Art of Memory (1987)

Directed by Woody Vasulka

War · 37m

Manipulating a variety of sources, Vasulka uses creative imaging tools to situate historical images against Southwestern landscapes of incredible beauty. Contorting the images into a variety of isomorphic forms, Vasulka creates a literal shape for these memories, developing these shapes as metaphors for the processes of fragmentation, condensation, and inversion, that inevitably contort fact into memory. While much of the raw material for the tape is drawn from World War II and its rehearsals, the Spanish Civil War and the Russian Revolution, The Art of Memory is really an extended meditation seeking to reconcile the blurry, banal photographs of historic figures with the mass destruction they helped engineer.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Woody Vasulka

Details

Release date
1987-10-22
Runtime
37m
Genres
War
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English, German, Russian, Spanish
Countries
United States of America