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1) Memory
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Alex, an expert assassin, refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target. FBI agents and Mexican intelligence are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies, leading them closer to Alex. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his every move. Alex must question his every action and whom...
2) Memory
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
MEMORY presents clips of five different experts (Lisa Feldman Barrett, Alcino Silva, Fred Gitelman, Elizabeth Loftus, Matthew Walker) highlighting various aspects of memory, from cutting-edge neuroscience experiments on animal models to how an intense exposure to the card game bridge can naturally result in remarkable feats of memory.
3) Memory House
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Portuguese
Description
In this audacious debut feature, João Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam (played by Cinema Novo icon Antônio Pitanga), an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the...
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Take an in depth voyage into the sci-fi masterpiece Alien with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time burst to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Remembering the past and projecting into the future are crucial for human consciousness, as shown by cases where these faculties are impaired. Investigate what happens in the brain when we remember, exploring different kinds of memory and the phenomena of false memories and false forgetting.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Philosopher John Locke suggested it is your continuous sequence of memories that allows you to be "you." But what is memory and how is it related to our emotions and dreams? Learn about the many different ways in which the brain stores the information we later retrieve and experience as memory.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
A stylish supernatural shocker that has been a hit at film festivals around the world. Argentina’s MEMORY OF THE DEAD boasts some terrifying FX set pieces bathed in a candy-colored visual palette that makes Mario Bava’s gothic classics look monochromatic by comparison. Following the sudden death of her husband, Alicia assembles all his friends at a vast country manor for a reading of his final letter. But Alicia also has other plans in mind –...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Can physics shed light on human aspects of the arrow of time such as memory, cause and effect, and free will? Learn that everyday features of experience that you take for granted trace back to the low entropy state of the universe at the big bang, 13.7 billion years ago.
Publisher
Mu Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This documentary conveys the human costs of military conflict through deeply personal accounts of the Korean War (1950-53) by four Korean-American survivors. Their stories take audiences through the trajectory of the war, from extensive bombing campaigns, to day-to-day struggle for survival, and separation from family members across the DMZ. Decades later, each person reunites with relatives in North Korea, conveying beyond words the meaning of family...
Publisher
Yukon Film Society
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Allan Code's MEMORY TRAP: THE HERD THAT WOULDN'T DISAPPEAR weaves together interviews of biologists, elders, authors, conservation officers and hunters with footage from some of the most remote corners of the Yukon wilderness to tell the incredible story of the Fortymile Caribou herd. In 1920, the Fortymile Caribou herd had numbers in the 600,000's, only to dwindle to 4,000 in the 1970's. Follow Code over the course of a year through the remote wilderness...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Much like a photographer who can change the angle, lens, lighting, and focus of a scene to evoke emotion from viewers, a writer colors an essay with his or her individual perspective simply by relaying his or her truth of it. This lecture focuses on looking at the world around you with a new lens, showing you how to convey those memories you’ve kept as an experience rather than just a recounting of facts. You’ll travel down the streets of London...
12) The Memory Thief
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing Exclusive
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Lukas - an aimless, haunted young man in contemporary L.A. who buries thoughts of his own past in the humdrum routine of a tollbooth clerk. A chance encounter with a Holocaust survivor suddenly brings into focus a world and an identity he embraces with frightening intensity - the victimized Jews of World War II. As he begins to enthusiastically act out his newfound obsession, Lukas discovers that survivor's guilt isn't just for...
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
In 1971 Wandjuk Marika organised a Djang’kawu ceremony at Yirrkala. It was to be a memorial for his father, Mawalan, who died in 1967. Mawalan had been the highly respected head of the Rirratjingu clan, for whom the Djang’kawu are primary Creator Ancestors. The two Djang’kawu Sisters came from across the sea and travelled through northeast Arnhem Land, shaping the landscape and giving birth to the first children of the Dhuwa moiety. The Djang’kawu...
15) Memory House
Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
An Indigenous Black man from the rural North of Brazil, moves to an industrialized Southern town to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes increasingly estranged from the white world.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isn't happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them." Bessel van der Kolk. In this program, Bessel van der Kolk and others examine how dissociation functions as a defense against overwhelming stress, how the mind processes...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The human brain is fascinating-every movement we make, everything conscious or unconscious stems from our brains. The most critical time for brain development is from birth to age five. What can parents and caregivers of children do to help give those developing brains the best chance for success? Discover how the basic workings of the brain influence our memory and how we learn and what can be done to encourage healthy brain development in children....
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