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This research started as an effort to recover lost childhood memories. I (Emilio Bassail)
used the film-making apparatus as a device that allowed me to excavate, elaborate
and produce representations based on the small fragments of memory I had left. After
creating an archive of reconstructed memories, I started questioning the images I
had unearthed. This position allowed me to interrogate and challenge the discourses
behind the images. What I discovered is that forgetfulness was in fact an effect of
the suppression of potentially subversive discourses. I had not really forgotten,
but rather I had chosen not to remember (since the hidden childhood memories defied
the internalised discourses of power and structure). To be able to remember and therefore
to create, first I had to debilitate the discourses of the power structures that prevented
me from going forward in my research. Following
<a class="xref-link" href="#r3">Suely Rolnik’s (2019)</a>
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