Questions of Memory

How do you make a film about fading memory, a subject that seems to be about the declining ability to construct narratives out of past events?

I'm intrigued as all of us constantly re-order the past depending on how much we remember and how relevant each memory seems at a particular moment of time. I'm intrigued by what things, music, sound, image, you're going to pull together to tell your story and whether you choose fragments or existing narratives from one or two people.

There's also the big, and basic, question - why do you want to make this film. Martin?

Lost - Start somewhere

Where to begin?   

I've set this blog up to document as much of the process of making a film about memory as I can.  I've never written a blog before, let alone one about a research and production process so who knows how this will turn out.  To be honest it could be a disaster, but isn't that the whole point?  Expose the process, be accountable for ideas, but don't be too precious. 


I start with a picture of faces and this piece of music, part of a commission called Lost Objects composed by David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe which came onto the radio by complete chance while I was describing the idea of this project to my brother the other night.  



"Lost Objects is a musical exploration of the meaning of memory. With the spine of a baroque oratorio layered with the muscle of modern times, it is a powerful monument to the loss of people, things, rituals, ideas."



I'm glad Late Junction found it.