Who Owns a Memory?
Who owns a Memory?
The conventional channels of film financing, distribution, and exhibition feel especially sinister when they exploit diary films, actual stories from the lives of filmmakers.
cinemovil nyc and Film Diary present two diary films, a doc about a filmmaker rejecting a Hollywood distribution deal that would have sealed her away from her own home video archives for a decade, Liz Roberts’ EVEN GOD, and the first documentary to be withdrawn from IDFA in protest of the institution’s role in normalizing so-called “israel’s” genocidal war in Palestine, Miko Revereza’s NOWHERE NEAR.
The films will be followed by a discussion about how the industry tries to capture “authentic” stories to inject blood into their brand, and how we can shape and circulate our personal stories principally, without selling and orientalizing ourselves. We will also talk about the current state of action against and refusal of film festivals that serve as a cultural wall of defense for the brokers of genocides around the world, whose momentum we feel has been suddenly dulled and co-opted.
Text by A.E Hunt
