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All the World's Memories
All the World's Memories
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ALL THE WORLD'S MEMORIES

Toute la Mémoire du Monde

Directed by Alain Resnais
France, 1957
Documentary, Short

Synopsis

With its long tracking shots through cavernous library hallways and its skeptical corresponding text, this film imagines the Bibliothèque Nationale as a forbiddingly inhuman landscape in which man attempts to imprison “knowledge” in an effort to counter the limits of his own memory.

Synopsis

With its long tracking shots through cavernous library hallways and its skeptical corresponding text, this film imagines the Bibliothèque Nationale as a forbiddingly inhuman landscape in which man attempts to imprison “knowledge” in an effort to counter the limits of his own memory.