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Cruel Weather. Film: Please Rewind Me Later
31 October
Please Rewind Me Later [Roy Samaha, 30min, 2007]
- Saturday 31 October
- Peacock Visual Arts
- Starts 6pm
- Entry Free
“Please rewind me later” is Lebanese video-artist Roy Samaha’s most recent work. This video is intended as a way to investigate one’s own past life. It reconnects childhood homes, dreams and VHS tapes, all that forms a body that remembers. Is it possible to make a self-portrait without giving in to the clichés of historical archives? Once it was said: "You must understand: the memory of objects records and retains the actions of humans....so that following generations inherit them... But it was also asked of you to leave backwards to do as if you had never come in. Things, places possess a kind of memory. When you enter a closed space, a part of you remains attached to it, you lose something. You must learn to take leave without losing a parcel of your being... Learn to circulate without leaving a trace."