The Journey of Memory through Film

Abstract

Cultural memory or collective memory is the set of practices, structures,
and medias by which a group of people recalls narratives of a common past. But on many
occasions, this memory is not restricted to the boundaries that define this group, since it
is transposed and transformed through contact with other memories. At present, films are the medias by which this transculturality is processed more frequently, because of the ease they have to cross social, linguistic and political boundaries. This essay uses some of these concepts to analyze, in the film Yvy Maraey (Valdivia, 2013), how distinct memories relate in a process of travel, discovery and resignification.