Time and Memory

May 17, 2012

0h 23m

★ 0.0

Overview

A film essay that explores the relationship between film and memory, based on the personal memoir of the director. An autobiographical attempt to analyze this relationship going from the individual to the collective. From Chris Marker to Hitchcock and on to Kennedy´s assassination, passing through Fritz Lang and Bruce Willis, the memory of the images is fused with our own story, until they cannot be separated.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

UNAM

Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC)

Filmoteca de la UNAM

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Cast

Jorge Ayala Blanco

Damián Fragoso Torres

Ernesto Torres Gutiérrez Rubio

Luciana Ramírez Tamariz

Marta Zertuche

Liliana Ramos Peña

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