I Remember Nothing
December 2010: revolution breaks out in Tunisia, the country of the filmmaker's father. In a strange way, the cries of fury of the Tunisian people echoed the inner turmoil that had been growing inside her for several weeks. At the same time, she was going through a manic-depressive episode of great intensity, and was diagnosed as bipolar and admitted to a psychiatric clinic. When she emerged from this long depression, she had almost no memory of that moment in her life. What remains are dozens of hours of rushes, hundreds of photos, and two notebooks filled with writings, collages and drawings... Precious traces that compensate for her amnesia.
| Director | Diane Sara Bouzgarrou |
| Actor | Amandine Gay |
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When altered states of consciousness are mentioned, the reflex is more often to think of the effects of psychotropic drugs than of bipolarity. Yet, watching Diane Sara Bouzgarrou's film, composed of fragments and scattered materials from manic episodes she tries to remember with us, we can't help but be projected into a journey full of surprises—sometimes touching, sometimes frightening, often unsettling. During her episodes, Bouzgarrou doesn't film to elicit empathy, and the documentary effectively captures her frenzy, obsessions, and the distress of those around her, as patient and loving as they are exhausted and panicked. This is where the power of I Remember Nothing lies: no authoritative voice, rationalization, or Hollywood-style resolution, just the full expression of the subjectivity of a bi/polar/sexual/national filmmaker who reminds us that an artist is, above all, a person capable of making us see the world through their eyes. Or of making us plunge to the other side of the one-way mirror!
Amandine Gay
Filmmaker
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Français
1h00
Language: Français -
English
1h00
Language: English
- Année 2017
- Pays France
- Durée 60
- Producteur Tryptique Films
- Langue French, English
- Sous-titres English, French
- Résumé court Between the Tunisian revolution, amnesia and bipolarity, the director reconstructs her story and her memories.
- Ordre 1
When altered states of consciousness are mentioned, the reflex is more often to think of the effects of psychotropic drugs than of bipolarity. Yet, watching Diane Sara Bouzgarrou's film, composed of fragments and scattered materials from manic episodes she tries to remember with us, we can't help but be projected into a journey full of surprises—sometimes touching, sometimes frightening, often unsettling. During her episodes, Bouzgarrou doesn't film to elicit empathy, and the documentary effectively captures her frenzy, obsessions, and the distress of those around her, as patient and loving as they are exhausted and panicked. This is where the power of I Remember Nothing lies: no authoritative voice, rationalization, or Hollywood-style resolution, just the full expression of the subjectivity of a bi/polar/sexual/national filmmaker who reminds us that an artist is, above all, a person capable of making us see the world through their eyes. Or of making us plunge to the other side of the one-way mirror!
Amandine Gay
Filmmaker
-
Français
Duration: 1h00Language: Français1h00 -
English
Duration: 1h00Language: English1h00
- Année 2017
- Pays France
- Durée 60
- Producteur Tryptique Films
- Langue French, English
- Sous-titres English, French
- Résumé court Between the Tunisian revolution, amnesia and bipolarity, the director reconstructs her story and her memories.
- Ordre 1
