72 minutes

Memories, mirrors, madness and Memento collide in this experimental video essay focusing on photographs and photographers in countless narrative films. The culmination of ten years of researching photography appearing in cinema, All the Memory in the World is a stream-of-consciousness meditation on cinema, photography, identity, memory, and dreams. It’s narrated by an insomniac who obsesses over photographic images that he remembers.

The film simultaneously reveals and deconstructs cinematic tropes as it progresses. Throughout All the Memory in the World, countless types of cinematic images are found to repeat in other movies from different genres, decades, and countries.

“Lines of reality are further blurred when the narrator repeats dialogue from movies, mimicking the actors onscreen, who are often female. Photos are ripped and taped back together, mirrors crushed. The movie begins anew multiple times, the narrator asking the audience to start again from the beginning. But where was the beginning? The camera's lens zooms in, pulls back, hiding, obscuring, bleeding into one scene from another.”
—Justin McIntosh, Columbus Alive