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Tuesday, Aug 8, 1989
The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory
Ricardo Block creates a sense of his childhood-he was raised by French-Jewish parents in Mexico-by collaging film images he has retained: home movies, clips of Hollywood films, cartoons and Mexican TV. While Tinker Bell and Bette Davis are immediately recognizable, the images from Mexican television, even those of the President, are unfamiliar. It is these images, together with Block's footage of the streets and countryside of Mexico, that make his childhood seem unique, for it cannot be reduced to images shared across language and race.
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