Premiere in Spain.
What’s in the brain of a man whose memory is fading? This is what Pop’s grandson tries to uncover, while the decaying archive footage emerges as a magnetic visual exploration of Pop’s musings and a delightful, emotional journey of mutual understanding. Using deteriorating, previously unseen and anonymously given 16mm archive material, the guerrilla-produced The Memory Boom combines documentary and scripted elements, enveloping you in a sweet, conscious lullaby. Memory becomes film, and as the celluloid degrades, so does the brain. But the journey remains joyful and pleasurable, like one in which only the good things are remembered.
Producer Xenia Glen reveals herself as a highly sensitive filmmaker, giving us a unique piece in which 16mm merges with a fascinating narrative and dialogues with the historical heritage of Tarragona to offer us the most lyrical film of this year’s REC d.
