Art of Memory

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 22, 1987

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, German, Russian, Spanish

Countries

United States of America

Cast

Daniel Nagrin,Doris Cross

Director

Woody Vasulka

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt5123736