Project Description

It’s not my memory of it is a documentary based on interviews conducted in 2000 with
people who manage intelligence information in the US government. These interviews
led the artists to the three stories conveyed in the film. A former CIA source recounts
his disappearance through shredded classified documents that were painstakingly
reassembled by students who took over the U.S embassy in Iran in 1979. A CIA film
– recorded in 1974 but unacknowledged until 1992 – documents the burial at sea of
six Soviet sailors, in a ceremony which collapses Cold War antagonisms in a moment
of death and honour. A single photograph pertaining to a publicly acknowledged but
top secret US missile strike in Yemen in 2002 is the source of a reflection on the role
of images in the dynamic of knowing and not knowing.

April 2011