"Storing the past so as not to revive it was sheer 20th century."
Questioning visions, their narratives, and the memories they make and erase. Chris Marker tackles hauntology in this profoundly dense, confounding, exhausting, and distressing work, in which he plumbs philosophical depths in hopes to gain an understanding of the Battle of Okinawa while crafting yet another ruminative essay on the interplay between memory and history. Yet that hardly imparts what a complex web this weaves, freely and fluidly…