It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents

Overview

“It’s not my memory of it” is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance through shredded classified documents that were painstakingly reassembled by radical fundamentalist students in Iran in 1979 following the takeover of the U.S embassy. A CIA film—recorded in 1974 but unacknowledged until 1992—documents the burial at sea of six Soviet sailors, in a ceremony which collapses Cold War antagonisms in a moment of death and honor. A single photograph pertaining to a publicly acknowledged but top secret U.S. missile strike in Yemen in 2002 is the source of a reflection on the role of images in the dynamic of knowing and not knowing.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 14, 2003

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Director

David Thorne,Julia Meltzer

Writer

David Thorne

Producer

Julia Meltzer

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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