There will be an unofficial private screening of the documentary film “Hunting Down Memory” about Øyvind Aamot. The film will be shown on Sunday 26 July 2009, 19:30, Caochangdi 300, Nordox Project Space, no entrance fee.
“Hunting down memory” is the Norwegian director Thomas Lien`s latest documentary film. Hunting Down Memory is a true story about Øyvind Aamot, who suddenly lost 27 years of his memory. He remembered nothing from his life. For most people, this would have been a dreadful experience, an ominous and frightening event in their life. For Øyvind, it was an adventure. He is neither traumatized nor paralyzed, he is just curious. He wants to know what happened, but he would also like to know what cottage cheese and blueberry pie taste like.
“It’s like having your hard disk deleted,” according to one of the doctors who examined Øyvind when he returned to Norway. At the age of 27, he had to start learning how the world functions. Among many other things, he believed that all the small children were a separate people. He could not understand irony. Sex and love was totally alien to him. He had no idea what money, passports, identity, nationality or gender was all about. Norway and China – are they two countries? What is a country? What is a nation? What is a language? What is a mother?
Øyvind Aamot sailed for six months on a circumnavigation voyage with director Thomas Lien, before he quit in order traveling alone in China. A few months later, his memory was completely gone. Hunting down Memory will be a film which is both humorous and tragic. We will enter into the universal theme “identity”, and through Øyvind’s story we will gain insight into our own nature. At the same time, we are served Øyvind’s amazing story, from the time when he was a happy circumnavigator until he lost his memory, and then in mysterious ways managed to return to Norway, experienced the world with the consciousness of a child, was confronted with various prejudices, and had to build a new identity.
Øyvind Aamot will be at the unofficial screening for a Q&A after the film and invites you and friends specially to come and see the film.Call 13811284883 for detail information.For more information about Nordox and the documentary, visit their website at http://www.nordox.cn