About Memory and Loss

About Memory and Loss (French: Notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Amélie Hardy and released in 2022. Based on Rafaële Germain's non-fiction essay Un présent infini: notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli,^[1] the film is a meditation on the cultural process of deciding what elements of history to preserve and archive for posterity, and what elements of history to discard.^[2]

About Memory and Loss
French	Notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli
Directed by	Amélie Hardy
Written by	Amélie Hardy
Based on	Un présent infini: notes sur la mémoire et l'oubli by Rafaële Germain
Produced by	Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Narrated by	Alexa-Jeanne Dubé
Cinematography	Louis Turcotte
Edited by	Louis Chevalier-Dagenais
Music by	Alex Lefaivre
Production company	Club Vidéo
Distributed by	Travelling Distribution
Release date	October 6, 2022 (2022-10-06) (FNC)
Running time	8 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

The film premiered at the 2022 Festival du nouveau cinéma.^[3]

Awards

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref(s)
Prix Iris	December 10, 2023	Best Short Documentary	Amélie Hardy, Isabelle Grignon-Francke	Won	[4]