Projections of Memory

Projections of Memory is an exploration of a body of innovative cinematic works that utilize their extraordinary scope to construct monuments to the imagination that promise profound transformations of vision, selfhood, and experience. This form of cinema acts as a nexus through which currents from the other arts can interpenetrate. By examining the strategies of these projects in relation to one another and to the larger historical forces that shape them--tracing the shifts and permutations of their forms and aspirations--Projections of Memory remaps film history around some of its most ambitious achievements and helps to clarify the stakes of cinema as a twentieth-century art form.

Richard I. Suchenski is Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts and Director of the Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College. Suchenski has a joint Ph.D. in History of Art and Film Studies from Yale University, and is a film curator. He is the editor of Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Introduction
Chapter 1: "The Era of the Image Has Arrived"
Chapter 2: Towards the Temenos - Gregory Markopoulos' Eniaios
Chapter 3: "We Are No Longer Innocent" - The Long Form Aesthetic of Jacques Rivette
Chapter 4: The Sense of an Ending - Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma
Conclusion