10 Years of MEMORY
Founded in 2014, MEMORY is a Los Angeles-based independent artist-driven motion picture company specializing in producing, curating, and releasing innovative, thought-provoking work from multi-hyphenate filmmakers and artists that push the formal boundaries of their medium. To celebrate a decade of work in the art of moving image, Metrograph is happy to present a survey of MEMORY'S groundbreaking work across films and moving image from the past decade, including collaborations with Dean Fleischer-Camp, Marnie Ellen Hertzer, and Cecilia Rowlson-Hall, and the streaming premieres of Asher Penn's "Physician, Heal Thyself" and Chenliang Zhu's "Parkland of Decay and Fantasy".
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Parkland of Decay and Fantasy
Directed by Chenliang Zhu | 101 mins | 2022
Technology and spirituality are parallel forces in an abandoned and possibly haunted Chinese amusement park once taken over by outsider artists. If it is true that at the moment of death, consciousness sends out its last waves of thought into the univer... -
Physician, Heal Thyself
Directed by Asher Penn | 79 mins | 2023
"Physician, Heal Thyself" offers a searingly intimate portrait of the celebrated expert on addiction, stress, and trauma, Gabor Maté. The documentary follows Gabor’s life’s journey, from his start as a young contrarian to a contemporary icon still strugglin... -
Crestone
Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler | 73 mins | 2020
In a world that undulates between fact and fiction, digital and physical, a group of SoundCloud rappers lives a solitary, post-societal existence in the desert town of Crestone, Colorado. Once a religious and spiritual mecca for many, Crestone’s ... -
Ma
Directed by Celia Rowlson-Hall | 83 mins | 2015
In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary’s pilgrimage, a woman crosses the scorched landscape of the American Southwest. Reinvented and told entirely through movement, the film playfully deconstructs the role of this woman, who encounters a world fu... -
Fraud
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp | 55 mins | 2016
A family's home movies document a desperate crime spree and a bid to outrun the consequences…Or do they? In this meta-fiction thriller, an average family’s youtube videos have been edited to resemble something quite different. An extraordinary feat... -
She Mad: Bitch Zone
Directed by Martine Syms | 11 mins | 2020
"She Mad" is an episodic project that uses fragments from the sitcom format to explore the sign of blackness in the public imagination. It is a way to think about surveillance, visibility, and the gulf between lived experience and representation. The show... -
Hi I Need to Be Loved
Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler | 11 mins | 2018
'I am going to have you read from a collection of my spam emails,' The director explains as she ushers actors from Craigslist one-by-one into an audition room. The actors and the director search together for the human voice inside the dialogue of... -
Midnight Confession
Directed by Max McCabe-Lokos | 11 mins | 2017
West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindication but the ensuing conversations only reveal his own sordid history of deceit. -
Actress
Directed by Sebastian Pardo | 11 mins | 2015
An aspiring actress moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream, and finds herself orbiting the periphery of show business, while everyday life muddies what exactly her path might be. Ana Coto, star of horror blockbuster "OUIJA", leads Sebastian Pardo’s n... -
On God
Directed by Andrew Theodore Balasia | 10 mins | 2024
Perched on a darker ledge than most, Andrew Theodore Balasia’s "On God" is a kaleidoscope of tones, toxicity and tenderness, both funny and poignant, in which a man (Al Warren, "Dream Scenario") awakens from a gunshot-induced coma, determined t... -
Hang Loose
Directed by Sammy Harkham and Patrick Brice | 9 mins | 2015
"Hang Loose" follows a night in the life of an aimless surfer, Wade (Little Wings’ Kyle Field), who chases his whims up and down the California coast. When he returns to his former hometown, he takes the opportunity to visit his ex, who ...