Takeover: VI. Scene Takeover
The Remembered Film
Isabelle Tollenaere
2018
17 Minutes
Date
Repeat: Dec 15-16 ET
In The Remembered Film, young soldiers from previous wars are seen aimlessly roaming the woods. They wear the uniforms of Soviet troops, of the Wehrmacht, or of American military forces during the Vietnam war. In interviews, they share war memories that they can’t possibly have experienced themselves, but that have nonetheless taken root in their memory. A friction between imagination and reality arises: that which the boys testify to albeit have not experienced, but that yet has genuinely imprinted their minds, amidst other real-life memories. Thus unfolds the intrinsic relationship between storytelling, memory, and history; how forming memories is subject to fictionalization, just as history is a process of creative storytelling, a subjective construction.
This screening is part of Scene Takeover, the sixth and final chapter of the online program Takeover curated by Julian Ross for e-flux Video & Film, and unfolding in six chapters between September 22 and December 15, 2022, with the films and videos of each chapter streaming for two weeks.
Takeover wraps on Thursday, December 15 with a repeat of all films featured in the six chapters of the program, streaming through Friday, December 16, 11:59 pm ET.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.