Reinwardt Academy Professor Riemer Knoop speaks about the Art of Forgetting in the lecture series of Master Film.

'Our age's dominant cultural mode is one in which anything valuable has to be captured, remembered, collected, documented, safeguarded and protected - from oblivion, from time's passage, form death and decay. Indeed, by the very fact of preserving, things become valuable. Yet forgetting can be as productive as remembering.

Delving into psychoanalysis (Oliver Sacks), sociology (Paul Connerton) and museology (Michel Foucault), I shall try and illustrate how and why forgetting can be useful, indeed often is a condition for getting ahead. Today's memory institutions' plight, with much of their collections not and perhaps to be on show, will be put in a new light.'

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