Gropius Memory Palace

Ben Thorp Brown
Part of

56th New York Film Festival

September 28 - October 14, 2018

Part architectural film, part ASMR exercise, this observational study of Walter Gropius’s famed shoe warehouse, The Fagus Factory, is a meditation in every sense.

DIRECTOR
Ben Thorp Brown
YEAR
2017
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
20 minutes

Part architectural film, part ASMR exercise, this observational study of Walter Gropius’s famed shoe warehouse, The Fagus Factory, is a meditation in every sense. Opening against soft white light and the soothing sounds of a hypnotherapist’s voice, Ben Thorp Brown’s film transports the audience inside Gropius’s landmark. Droning ambience and languid images of laborers at work foster a psychoanalytic space through which the viewer may deeply consider the nature of memory and its constant negotiation between context and content.


This free screening will play on loop at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater at the following times:

Oct. 4: 2-6 pm, 9-11 pm
Oct. 6: 12-6 pm, 9-11 pm

Gropius Memory Palace
Gropius Memory Palace
Gropius Memory Palace

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