To Live Is to Forget
The selection of films thematizes memory, especially collective memory. These are not just films about particular historical events, but multilayered essays about relating to the past. They show that part of memory is forgetting, rejecting or creating myths.
The selection of films thematizes memory, especially collective memory. These are not just films about particular historical events, but multilayered essays about relating to the past. They show that part of memory is forgetting, rejecting or creating myths—in short, adjusting to the past. The past is not something that has been closed; it is being created in the present. It is constantly rewritten and changed.
Reflections on these problems also require an unconventional film form, which is evidenced by the selected films. Some are based exclusively on archive materials that examine and deconstruct; others work with reconstruction and blend together the past with the present—and even in the case of the two fiction films in this section, they are rather docufictions. All films have in common their essayistic nature and effort to doubt and ask questions.
Tomáš Hudák