By Anna Marie de la Fuente A cinematic essay about life, memory and time, Argentine Nicolas Prividera’s “Adios a la Memoria” (“A Farewell to Memory”), the Doc Works in Progress (WIP) winner at Spain’s Malaga Film Festival, captures the life and recollections of the filmmaker’s Alzheimer’s-stricken father.
Produced by Pablo Ratto of Trivial Media, “Adios a la Memoria” does so through home movies urge filmmaker’s father shot, footage from archives as well as those filmed by Prividera, as a family tragedy during the late-70s dictatorship in Argentina continues to haunt the family.
The docu-essay steers away from the standard first-person narration, and instead is told in the third person by Prividera who studied at the University of Buenos
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