FRANCE · 1956

All the World's Memory

Alain Resnais
French New Wave cultural memory archival preservation institutional bureaucracy human vs. machine knowledge organization
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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.

Year1956
CountryFrance
DirectorAlain Resnais
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