The Act of Forgetting

About the Swedish artist Anders Zorn's unknown passion for photography. Some of them models for later works and others are innovative photo experiments.

Story and memories of one of the most famous Russian photographer of the 20th century.

Renowned architect, Arata Isozaki creates with a rare and specific hand, blending his Japanese culture and education with classic Western aesthetics. Inspired deeply by the architecture he saw in Europe, Isozaki's buildings appear both grand and delicate, entirely aware of the space they occupy. Of his particular style Isozaki tells us, "Even though my buildings look very Western and not Japanese, conceptually and fundamentally, I feel that I have been very influenced by Japanese traditions, both in architecture and in traditional concepts of time and space." (Arata Isozaki) Arata Isozaki: Early Work in Japan takes a detailed look at the architect's pieces, exploring applauded projects such as the EXPO '70 Osaka Festival Plaza, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art and Kitakyushu Municipal Library. The extraordinary series of architectural breakthroughs made during this time contributed significantly to the evolution of contemporary architecture worldwide, and eventually gained him his first foreign commission: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Two groups of people gathering together trying to approximate two given stories while gradually having their own stories involved in the process and transforming the uncertain events into present and personal experiences. The two given stories indicate significant moments of self-consciousness: the essence of the self was recognized then departed after that point. One story is about a son's first-time experience of comforting his upset father, and the other story is about a young woman at a country house being surrounded by friends and realizing that from that moment on she could start working as a stripper. These two moments pushed the two persons' life into new directions. The work is a journey traveling through perception, memory, reality, fiction, music, art, performance, identity and storytelling while it brought groups of friends and strangers together and generated personal yet collective trajectory from the past to the unknown.

A story of abandonment and discovery, of silence and of sharing, of how fate has shaped the lives of three women and of how their efforts have changed their lives.