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FRANCE · 1956
All the World's Memory
French New Wave
cultural memory
archival preservation
institutional bureaucracy
human vs. machine
knowledge organization
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Synopsis
A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.
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