The life of a memory

The film follows one invented childhood moment as it is experienced, stored, recalled and possibly altered. Its neural imagery is schematic: it does not depict a specific pathway or claim that the exact contents of a human memory have been observed.

Research supports memory as a distributed and reconstructive process. Recall can sometimes make a memory open to updating, but this depends on the memory and the conditions of retrieval; change and loss of detail are not inevitable. Read the scientific review behind this account.

Space pauses the film. “Save film” records a new audiovisual performance in real time; keep this page visible until it finishes.