Memoria screening, May 2

Cinema Sensate presents Apichatpong Weerasethkul’s award winning 2021 narrative fiction film, Memoria.

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.

The film will be introduced by Colombian documentary filmmaker Carlos Tobon Franco and will be followed with a brief discussion. Cinema Sensate foregrounds cinematic works (narrative fiction and documentary) that are focused on the ways in which we sense the world. As fans, practitioners, theorists, and critics we are committed to thinking together through the space of the cinema and public screenings.

Everyone is welcome to this public event.
Memoria (136 min) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethkul
6:30pm on Thursday May 2, 2024
Eastside Cinema – tickets online or at the door

Cinema Sensate is produced by the Bureau for Experimental Ethnography and it is part of the “Community Curator” programming at Blue Starlite’s Eastside Cinema.

Cinema Sensate Recommended Reading Club

We intend with all of our screenings to expand the conversation through recommended readings. There is no requirement. If you want just show up to the screening, you’re still welcome to hang out and participate in the conversation.

• Betancourt, Manuel. “Colombia Enchanted in Memoria and Encanto.” Film Quarterly 75, no. 4 (June 1, 2022): 64–68. (download below)
• Cronk, Jordan. “I Remember Everything: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria.” Cinema Scope, September 20, 2021.
• Kampakis, Demi. “The Sound of Silence.” Reverse Shot, 2021. https://reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2856/memoria.