Recording outside the building that once housed that cinema, he details his harrowing time in the theatre and the film’s reverberations in his life beyond the theatre’s walls, including how it stirred generational trauma in his family and racism at school. With his deceptively simple approach, Lee inverts and subverts Oliver Stone’s epic, crafting, on a shoestring budget, a profound and intensely personal meditation on memory. Lee’s video essay was published as part of ‘Once Upon a Screen’, a series of video essays about film viewing and childhood trauma, commissioned and curated by Ariel Avissar and Evelyn Kreutzer, for The Cine-Files journal of cinema studies, Issue 15.
Websites: The Cine-Files, [in]Transition A haunting scene from ‘Minority Report’ inspires a voyage into time and memory What was it like to go to the movies in January 1940? Timothée built his identity around his absent father. What happens when they meet?
For millennia, we’d never seen anything like film cuts. How do we process them so easily? When your parents survived Auschwitz, where do you fit into the family story?
A tragicomic account of how the Los Angeles Police Department blew up a city block Remarkable historical footage is locked behind paywalls. It’s time to set it free From shifting perspectives to shaping scenes, how sound design can carry a film A tour through the history of time in cinema, guided by Richard Linklater
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