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Escaping Amnesia
Written, Directed, Produced by

Shana Lourie Sutton
University of Denver, 2005

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5

<Note, total running time is about 8 min, for easier streaming, I have divided the film into chapters>

About the Film

In this Dada inspired docu-collage, a young woman, haunted by stories of Nazi genocide, comes to grips with modern day domestic terrorism in a post 9/11 world. As she explores issues of aesthetic terrorism, simulacra of media messages and events, psychotechnology, and man's physiological connection to the media, the flickering images cast their shadows moment upon moment upon moment.

She realizes that there is a deja vue that occurs within time, place, and history. It seeps through the natural lull of her daily dose of TV programming and 24-hour newscasts awakening her in the form of nightmarish events or color-coded warnings.   It tries to envelope her in an historical amnesia broken only by a more active involvement with the reception of its messages.

 

 

My graduate thesis work focused on how advanced technology affects our understanding and reception of the message.   Exploring the transcendence of the moving image in its ubiquitous manifestations (ie: TV, Web, mobile phone, podcasts, etc), I evaluated the resulting simulacra of the message, the psychotechnology of the images (perception of messages and reality), the tendency towards historical amnesia.  

I'm continually fascinated with the affect of the remediation of media, man's physiological connection to media and most importantly our personal control over the media's messages.