Returns to the Past: Memory Erasure in the Cinema of Central Asia (and beyond)

• In Event: Memory and Migration: Screen Visions of Past and Future Lives in Russian and Central Asian Cinema

Abstract

The paper addresses the impact of migration on characters in recent films from Central Asia (and Georgia). Protagonists return to their "home" countries temporarily or permanently to confront the memory of the (Soviet) past. They are faced with the loss of memory of their previous life; with a return that offers closure of the past; and with a shaping the space of (Soviet) memory in a post-colonial perspective.

Author

• Birgit Beumers, Aberystwyth U (UK)