The Dance of Memory

Mar 23, 2014

1h 20m

★ 5.7

If we could choose seven moments to sum up our entire life, which ones would they be?

Overview

Memory mechanisms are mysterious: we only see the stories we choose in order to construct our own reality. Every mark is a message in time, the invocation of an absence. To travel in the memory is to walk in time, zigzagging, a long road permeated by a dark, indecipherable logic… if we could choose seven moments to sum up our entire life, which ones would they be? The Dance of the Memory is a documentary-essay that guides us in that autobiographical search, where image and memory intertwine. It mixes archive material with an aesthetic and subjective tone.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Bosque Negro

Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

Merkado13

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Cast

Narrator / Self

Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba

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The Dance of Memory

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