Writing After the Disaster

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Roy Samaha, Please Rewind Me Later (2007). 30 min film.

“This work wants a tool of research into its own past. It’s about linking places from childhood, dreams and VHS recordings. How can one make an auto-portrait without resorting to historical, archival shots? “You must understand: the memory of objects records and keeps human actions… so that future generations can inherit them… But you have also been asked to go, to leave everything behind you as if you had never come. Things, places possess a sort of memory. When you enter in an enclosed space, a part of you remains tied, you lose something. You must learn to leave without abandoning a piece of yourself… Learn to move around without leaving any trace.”

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