Wednesday 2 February 2011

Stan Douglas, Details from Inconsolable Memories, 2005



Stan Douglas, Inconsolable Memories, 2005
Installation view at Joslyn Art Mueseum, Omaha, NE
16 mm black and white film, sound, loops; 2 synchronized film projections; 15 permutations at 5 minutes 39 seconds

Inconsolable Memories, a film reconstructed by memory, uses narrative loops to articulate the experience of time. It is difficult to piece together the sequence of events as they unfold in the present.