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February 17–24, 2021 Memory can refer to the faculty of the mind that stores past thoughts and images, or to the commemoration of someone or some place through the act of recalling. Through a series of short films, Welcome to the Memory Palace, curated by Pleasure Dome’s Clare Samuel, presents the architectures of memory, both personal and institutional, as fallible at times even suspicious. Using archival footage as their primary material, each film engages a form of memory keeping that asks its viewer to watch slightly askance. From Sharlene Bamboat’s unreliable narration, to Madeleine Aimée’s childhood recollections, the gaze of Hesam Rahmani’s dementia patient father, Andrew Lima’s exploration of geological and ancestral memory, John Akomfrah’s future memories, Anna Spence’s existential AI, Jennifer Dysart’s recuperation of cultural erasure, and Sara Angelucci’s photographic lie, each of the films plays etymologically with the dual meaning of memo ....
Texas Rangers stop using hypnosis after Dallas Morning News investigation reveals dubious science Last year, The News revealed Texas officers continue to turn to hypnosis to investigate crimes, sending dozens of men and women to prison and some to their deaths. The Texas Association for Investigative Hypnosis sold these commemorative medallions to members at its 2019 annual conference in Huntsville. The association is one of the few, if not the only, remaining societies for police employing hypnosis in criminal investigations. In January 2021, less than a year after The Dallas Morning News published a series exposing the dubious science underlying the practice, the Texas Department of Public Safety ended its hypnosis program after forty years. (Smiley Pool/Staff Photographer)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer) ....
A graduate of IADT Dun Laoghaire, Ward’s previous credits include his Reel Art-funded feature doc Tension Structures (2019); co-directed with Adrian Duncan, Joy Division music video Days of the Lord (2019); co-directed with Adrian Duncan, Arts Council-supported experimental art film Memory Room (2018); co-directed with Adrian Duncan, and his debut feature Yximalloo (2014); co-directed with Tadhg O Sullivan, which won the Prix Premier at FID Marseille in 2014. Directed, co-written, and filmed by Feargal Ward, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid made its world premiere in the main completion strand at IDFA (Amsterdam). Since then it has been selected for Hot Docs Toronto, Sheffield DocFest, Zagrebdox, Documenta Madrid, Munich DokFest, and Moscow International Film Festival. The documentary has also won several awards including the George Morrison Award for Best Documentary at the 2020 IFTA Film & Drama Awards, as well as, Best Irish film at DIFF 2018, an ....