All the World's Memory

All the World's Memory

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Release Date

11/1/1956

Runtime

21 mins

Overview

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

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Revenue

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A short documentary that transforms a grand Parisian library into something simultaneously reverent and eerie, treating its vast catalogues as both humanity's intellectual treasure and an unknowable, almost living organism.

Mood

ContemplativeUnsettlingWistful

Themes

MemoryArt and creation

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Documentary-likeFormalist

Structure

Linear

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