Amnesia is a stark and uncompromising portrayal of the escalation of xenophobic sentiment in a neo-conservative climate. Beth B refuses to preach and, by extension, to divide. The work trusts the ambiguity of art, rather than to assume a condescending position of knowledgeable correctness from which moral superiority might be inferred.
Screens before Lydia Lunch – The War Is Never Over.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1992
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 1"
- Medium/Format
- Digital
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