Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien always understood memory as unstable and compromised, not a sacred vault waiting to be opened but a form of afterlife that distorts even as it preserves. Memory is never whole and identity is far more contingent than we like to imagine.
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Anuradha Banerji is a politically engaged researcher, organiser, writer and a perennial dreamer.
In Mati Diop’s cinema, what comes back—be it migrants, memories or stolen objects—never quite returns the same.
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