Xikang

A house of return for selected works, future works, and city openings.

film

Sans Soleil

Chris Marker · 1983

Placed here because it keeps the collection porous to thought, movement, and revision.

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Placement

in the house
Reason For Admission
It allows memory and travel to remain unstable on purpose.
Home Room
City Pressure Room
Record
film

Constellations

1
Cities Remember Us
A city becomes thinkable once memory starts rewriting the footage.
essay axis · strength 4

Nearby Works

Vertigo
productive contrast · strength 3
Memory as essay set against memory as fixation.

Notebook References

Memory edits the city
Sans Soleil matters because it treats memory as active montage rather than faithful storage. That is also what this house is doing.