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THOSE WHO DO NOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT

THOSE WHO DO NOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT

Edwin Lo

Hong Kong

2020

Film

Short

Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Doomed to Repeat It (2020) is an experimental documentary that investigates the intersection of the People’s Temple (Jonestown) with the first-person horror game Outlast 2, developed by Red Barrel. Starting as a digital study of the game, this project attempts to recontextualize the relationship between the 1978 mass suicide at the People’s Temple and the game’s narrative. Composed of FBI archival footage and machinima made with the game, this work conveys a mysterious audio and visual journey into the understanding of self-destruction, religious utopia, and the binary between capitalism and socialism.

general information

edition

4th ECRÃ Festival

venues

online

duration in min

27

date and time

20-30 August

premiere

World Premiere, 4th ECRÃ Festival

indicative classification

16 years old

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Edwin Lo

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