#memory-and-trauma

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Film
fromRoger Ebert
15 hours ago

TIFF 2025: Blue Heron, Amoeba, Meadowlarks | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Blue Heron portrays memory's limits, blending fiction and documentary to expose familial trauma, frustration, and the difficulty of representing a troubled brother.
fromVulture
5 years ago

New on Netflix: June 2020

“Black GI: is it fair to serve more than the white Americans who send you here? Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die without the faintest idea of what’s going on. I dedicate this next record to the Soul Brothers of the First Infantry Divisions. Be safe.” These are the opening words of the trailer for Spike Lee’s latest film, Da 5 Bloods, spoken by “Hanoi Hannah,” who was a real-life Vietnamese radio broadcaster during the Vietnam War.
fromJezebel
3 weeks ago

HBO's 'The Yogurt Shop Murders' Takes a Different Approach to Documenting True Crime

Thomas' sister, Eliza Thomas, was 17 years old when she was murdered alongside three other teenage girls-13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, and Jennifer's 15-year-old sister Sarah-in Austin, Texas, in 1991. To be fair, Sonora was only 13 when her sister was murdered, and her family, burdened by grief, never openly talked about what happened to Eliza. Still, memory, as Brown expertly captures in his series, is a really tricky thing.
Television
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fromThe Walrus
1 month ago

Why I Decided to Return to the Refugee Camp I Came From | The Walrus

The memory of the refugee camp in Thailand becomes an enduring obsession, deeply affecting the narrator's consciousness.
Germany news
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

Berlin exhibition shows how Europe reckoned with Nazi crimes after World War II

Exhibitions were organized in Europe after WWII to document and confront Nazi crimes, helping communities process trauma.
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