The Dance of Memory

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Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba
Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba

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    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.

  • Release Date

    2014-03-23

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    5.7

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    2.9 starts
  • Tagline

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

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    Español
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