These are Not Our Memories
Some of our memories are vivid, others dim, some of us want to remember it all, others try to forget. When the filmmakers find a discarded box of family photographs on a street in Budapest, they set on a quest to see personal stories behind the images. What awakens a personal memory? And how much fantasy and projection is evoked by the images? Walking a thin line between memory and imagination, the filmmakers adopt the discarded traces of the lives of others. Whose memories are these?
Aseneth Suárez Ruiz is a Colombian documentary filmmaker, producer and educational content creator, and co-founder of Maquina Andante Media Lab. She studied documentary filmmaking in Barcelona and has produced and directed two award-winning feature-length documentaries – Parador Húngaro (2014) and CLARA (2021) – as well as the documentary short These Are Not Our Memories (2022). She has worked on projects for television including the animated series Cuentazos con efectazos (Storytime with Sound Effects) and Fuerzas invisibles (Invisible Forces), as well as the documentary Banderas en Marte (Flags on Mars). Her television work has received nominations and awards at festivals including Prix Jeunesse, Kidscreen, Comkids, Input and Japan Prize. She is currently producer on Andrea Said’s forthcoming documentary Yo Pakistán.
