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Inconsolable Memories
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Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York


Stan Douglas
Canadian, born 1960

Inconsolable Memories, 2005
2 synchronized, asymmetrical film loop projections, 16mm black and white film, sound, 15 permutations with a common period of 5:39 minutes
Purchased 2006

Inconsolable Memories is a remake of Cuban filmmaker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s 1968 Memories of Underdevelopment. Douglas transposes Gutiérrez Alea’s protagonist Sergio from the early 1960s Cuban Missile Crisis to the 1980s Mariel exodus. Two unequal film reels alternately and seamlessly project onto a single screen creating a “recombinant narrative” that destabilizes the viewer and approximates the instability of memory.