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There Was, There Was Not

Cinema as Collective Memory

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Join us for the New York Screening:

7:00pm: Screening Begins
8:30-9:00pm: Q&A with Celine and Emily
9:15-11:30: Party at DCTV with small bites and DJ


Cinema holds a singular place in our imagination, opening a shared space of possibility in both our individual and collective consciousness. At first, this might seem less true for nonfiction cinema, yet over nearly a decade of making my first feature, I’ve come to believe it has the power to cast a spell on how we experience reality and remember the past.

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In making There Was, There Was Not, I lived through a historical moment that became a fundamental rupture and trauma for my people - and now I can’t help but think about the archive obsessively.

In Conversation:
Emily Mkrtichian
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Topics:
Reclaiming Narratives