A Trip Down Memory Lane
Additional Material for a Time-Capsule
1966 · 12m · Not Rated
Documentary, History
Directed by
Arthur Lipsett
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A Trip Down Memory Lane
Overview
In this experimental collage film, Arthur Lipsett reworks over fifty years of newsreel footage into a surreal audiovisual montage of twentieth-century life. Juxtaposing images of scientific progress, political figures, spectacle, warfare, and everyday leisure, the film becomes a fragmented “time capsule” exploring the rituals and contradictions of modern technological culture.
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