Morgan Quaintance’s examination of memory takes us through stories of alien abduction, the Cold War, and colonialism in ways that link personhood and statehood as being identity. That is to say that history and memory are one and the same and the removal of memory is the removal or disappearance of history. These building blocks of memory/history are what make up a person/state so therefore the idea that “history is written by the victors” is an admittance that colonialism and conquest is the erasure of entire communities and then, in turn, entire identities. The use of archival footage alongside various archival recordings is incredibly apt for this purpose.
Morgan Quaintance’s examination of memory takes us through stories of alien abduction, the Cold War, and colonialism in ways that link personhood and statehood as being identity. That is to say that history and memory are one and the same and the removal of memory is the removal or disappearance of history. These building blocks of memory/history are what make up a person/state so therefore the idea that “history is written by the victors” is an admittance that colonialism and conquest is the erasure of entire communities and then, in turn, entire identities. The use of archival footage alongside various archival recordings is incredibly apt for this purpose.
