“Surviving Memory” is a film about the role of loss in the formation of identity. It is a narrative intercut with documentary fragments of political actions, which connect the various characters to event through collective memory. Through autobiographical spoken texts, the narrator relays fragments of a relationship between two Jewish women. The fragmented texts speak of the relation between these women as well as recounting various past and contemporary historical events of fascist and neo-Nazi activity (and resistance), Lesbian/Gay rights, Pro-Choice and AIDS demonstrations. While these instances tell a personal/political story about loss, they are also meant to elucidate the complexity of the process of diasporic identification and the relation of memory to historical event.
Surviving Memory
- Film Maker
- Flanders, Elle
- Year
- 1996
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Format
- 16mm
- Length
- 9
- Genre
- documentary, experimental, narrative, queer
- Category
- history, Jewish, LGBTQ, political activism, Politics + Policy, Race + Ethnicity, Resistance, Work about Women, Work by Women
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