About Memory and Loss | |
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Director: | Amélie Hardy |
Producer: | Isabelle Grignon-Francke |
Based On: | Un présent infini: notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli by Rafaële Germain |
Narrator: | Alexa-Jeanne Dubé |
Music: | Alex Lefaivre |
Cinematography: | Louis Turcotte |
Editing: | Louis Chevalier-Dagenais |
Studio: | Club Vidéo |
Distributor: | Travelling Distribution |
Runtime: | 8 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | French |
About Memory and Loss (French: Notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Amélie Hardy and released in 2022. Based on Rafaële Germain's non-fiction essay Un présent infini: notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli,[1] the film is a meditation on the cultural process of deciding what elements of history to preserve and archive for posterity, and what elements of history to discard.[2]
The film premiered at the 2022 Festival du nouveau cinéma.[3]