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By using electronic notes from Jerusalem, Italy, France, Germany, Peru, Buenos Aires, Mexico and the United States, The Museum Of Memory searches for a homeless referent, the disconnection between the image and its historical world.
“Not the symbol but that for which the symbol stands, the vivid thing in the air that never changes…“ wrote Wallace Stevens. The relation between a world viewed and one lived is found in a small village in Mexico where each evening elderly dancers connect the past to the present in a danzón.
Memory, travel and photography take their seats in coach class as one persona struggles to recall experiences while another battles with the inability to
forget. In The Museum of Memory photography becomes a place holder for the “real,” a flash card for places and objects for which stories are invented.
The photographic image, the image recalled, the one from childhood, the one from yesterday and the present are offered to acknowledge that there are things that we know, but do not understand.
In The Museum of Memory a camera may invent its own world – a world that exists to be perceived and advertised in postcards.
Dallas Video Festival
Videoformes
Bronze Remi Experimental Award, Houston Int'l Film Festival
Director's Citation Award, Black Maria Int'l Film/Video Festival
Dan Boord is a Professor and Luis Valdovino Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Exhibitions: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Venice Biennale, Italy, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Toronto Film Festival, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
filmography:
Not Enough Night
2007, 7,44 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
El Museo de la Memoria/The Museum of Memory
2006, 10:35 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
Themes
2004, 28:24 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
Cocteau Cento
2003, 5:49 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
Two or Three Things I know About Ohio
2002, 2:16 minutes, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
Dia de Los Muertos (The Last of the 20th Century)
2001, 1:32 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
Standards
2000, 25 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
Eat Like a Winner
1998, 8 minutes video, Dan Boord/Greg Durbin/Luis Valdovino
A Refutation of Time
1997, 8 minutes video, Dan Boord/Greg Durbin/Luis Valdovino
Patagonia
1996, 28 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
Another World of Dance
1994, 9 minutes video, Dan Boord/Laura Hill/Marilyn Marloff/Luis Valdovino
Una Historia/A History
1992, 26:30 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
Tierra Nueva
1991, 20 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
The World of Dance
1990, 9 minutes video, Dan Boord/Laura Hill/Marilyn Marloff/Luis Valdovino
Truco
1990, 12 minutes video, Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino
Category: MEDIAWAVE Festival / MEDIAWAVE '2008
Gene: Experimental
Nationalities: USA
Year: 2008
Premier: Hungarian premier
Director: Dan BOORD, Luis VALDOVINO
10 min. 2006 DV, Colour, with words, English, English subtitled
Screenplay: Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino, Anne Waldman
Cinematography: Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino
Animation: Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino
Music: Tom Wells
Editor: Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino
Narrated by: Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino, Anne Waldman
Cast: Veronica Munive Alvarado
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