Exploring memory through the essay film To Remember: An exercise into the decolonisation of the filmmaker’s unconscious

This research started as an effort to recover lost childhood memories. I (Emilio Bassail) used the film-making apparatus a device that allowed me excavate, elaborate and produce representations based on small fragments of memory had left. After creating archive reconstructed memories, questioning images unearthed. position interrogate challenge discourses behind images. What discovered is forgetfulness was in fact effect suppression potentially subversive discourses. not really forgotten, but rather chosen remember (since hidden memories defied internalised power structure). To be able therefore create, first debilitate structures prevented from going forward my research. Following Suely Rolnik’s (2019)