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Viviane Silvera animated 30,000 of her hand-painted images to explore how traumatic memories are formed, stored, and ultimately transformed. Her animated documentary, SEE MEMORY, traces the intimate story of a young woman caught between past and present; her film captures the fragmented texture of trauma and the healing that becomes possible when painful memories are witnessed. In our conversation with Viviane, we explore her process of recovering lost memories and how opposing perspectives can constellate new attitudes toward trauma. We discuss cutting-edge findings on the way the brain stores and changes memory and reveal the intersection of art, science, and psyche.
Watch SEE MEMORY on PBS (now live!): Streaming Link
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About Viviane:
Viviane Silvera is an award-winning artist and filmmaker whose work blends painting, animation, and neuroscience to illuminate memory, trauma, and the unconscious. She holds a dual B.S. in Psychology and Political Science from Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art.
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In the beginning of the dream, my task is to make a woman kill herself by directing her steps, almost as in a video game. I make her jump off a high cliff. A wave of suicides follows: everywhere I go, the people I encounter kill themselves in the same manner. It’s always slow and inevitable; I know exactly when it will happen, and I cannot avoid witnessing it. The cliff they all jump from appears to be underground, because the space is dark and enclosed. At one point I enter a family’s house to pick up my little sister, and we share a moment of love and joy. However, I know that the family who was babysitting her will now kill themselves, and there is nothing I can do to stop them. When the cycle ends, it starts again in the same way. I wake up in the middle of it.
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