The Forgotten Film Gallery is a documentary video art installation that catalogs old video clips that interpret the forgotten and attempts to bring them back to the "indefinite time period during and after the present". Its goal is to make sure that, in a day and age where old things are so often ignored or discarded without thought, we respect and enjoy and see that even parts of the past are still relevant in the future. It addresses the issue of not being able to connect with piece of history that are arguably vital to us. The surreal experience is performed in a desert area with TVs that play these clips. My opinion of this is that its a very elaborate concept that can't quite be contained or conveyed easily, although installing this documentary video art in different places seems to help with the concept of not only change but also that the age of the landscape is sort of eternal and doesn't fit under the past/present labels as easily as people; therefore, it creates a perfect environment in which to view these clips. I enjoyed watching the clips they used for this project, most of them being short films that I've never heard of (probably because of their age, which is the point of this documentary video art). The names of the films for this particular highlight video can be found in the description on the Vimeo video page.
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