Autopsy of Forgetting

director: kinema ikon, Ioan T. Morar

original title: Autopsia uitării

year: 1977

running time: 5 min.

synopsis

Touching a wall or a girl's face, standing by a window, eating an apple. Forgettable gestures and mundane moments – like moments we want to forget – can emerge under the hand of a skilled surgeon in the form of urgent, recurring images, a psychoanalytic montage of cinematic dreaming.

biography

Ioan T. Morar (1956) is a journalist, writer, critic, diplomat, and satirist. In 2020, he published a book, Fake News in the Golden Age. Memories and stories of communist censorship. As a student, he was a member of the Arad film collective kinema ikon.