About

'All the World's Memories' brings together a collection of celebrated documentaries, film-essays and artist videos that present cinema as a repository of past knowledge. The program features works that reflect on humanity's engagement with the natural world and built environment; portraits of public and private personalities made from home recordings; visual essays and compilations that mine material appropriated from news agencies, advertising and popular cinema; and pioneering collage films that juxtapose found footage from disparate sources. Connecting the various works is a desire to understand the world through poetic forms of montage.

The program takes its inspiration from Alain Resnais's short film Toute la mémoire du monde 1957 that explores the limits of human memory through the rigorous cataloguing and organising of collections at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The program is presented in four overlapping thematic sections: 'Travelogues', 'Home movies', 'Hijacked media' and 'Ready-made cinema'. Each grouping sees artists and filmmakers move deftly through visual and political histories, cultures and environments, and map a deeply personal view of the human condition.

List of Works

Alain Resnais Toute la mémoire du monde (All the World's Memories) 1957

{Travelogues}

Dziga Vertov Человек с кино-аппаратом (Man with a Movie Camera) 1929

Godfrey Reggio Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance 1982

Chris Marker Sans Soleil 1983

Artavazd Pelechian Մեր դարը (My Century) 1983

Patrick Keiller Robinson in Space 1997

Terence Davies Of Time and the City 2008

Nikolaus Geyrhalter Homo Sapiens 2016

Kirsten Johnson Cameraperson 2016

Fiona Tan Ascent 2016

Mona Willi, Michael Glawogger Untitled 2017

{Home movies}

Santiago Álvarez 79 Primaveras (79 Springs) 1969

Sadie Benning A Place Called Lovely 1991

Jonas Mekas As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000

Jonathan Caouette Tarnation 2003

Agnès Varda Les plages d'Agnès (The Beaches of Agnès) 2008

John Akomfrah The Stuart Hall Project 2013

Chantal Akerman No Home Movie 2015

Natalie Bookchin Long Story Short 2016

Raoul Peck I Am Not Your Negro 2016

Natalie Bookchin Now He's out in Public and Everyone Can See 2017

{Hijacked media}

Harun Farocki Workers Leaving the Factory 1995

Jean-Luc Godard Histoire(s) du Cinèma 1989

Tracey Moffatt Artist 2000

Thom Andersen Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003

Soda_Jerk Hollywood Burn 2006

Tracey Moffatt Revolution 2008

Sophie Fiennes The Perverts Guide to Ideology 2012

György Pálfi Final Cut – Ladies and Gentleman 2012

Matt Wolf Teenage 2014

Tracey Moffatt The Art 2015

Paul Anton Smith Have You Seen My Movie? 2016

Adam Curtis HyperNormalisation 2016

Dean Fleischer-Camp Fraud 2016

Benedict Seymour Dead The Ends 2017

{Ready-made cinema}

Joseph Cornell Rose Hobart c.1936

Joseph Cornell The Children's Party 1930–68

Joseph Cornell Cotillion 1930–70

Joseph Cornell The Midnight Party 1930–70

Bruce Conner A Movie 1958

Arthur Lipsett Very Nice, Very Nice 1961

Bruce Conner Report 1964

Arthur Lipsett Free Fall 1964

Arthur Lipsett 21-87 1964

Arthur Lipsett A Trip Down Memory Lane 1965

Arthur Lipsett Fluxes 1968

Bruce Conner Crossroads 1976

Bruce Conner Mongoloid 1978

Peggy Ahwesh The Colour of Love 1994

Bill Morrison Decasia 2002

Gustav Deutsch Film Ist. A Girl & a Gun 2009

Peter Tscherkassky The Exquisite Corpus 2015

Bill Morrison Dawson City: Frozen Time 2016