Estetica e tecnologie della memoria: Photographic memory

Photographic Memory (2011) by Ross McElwee is an autobiographical documentary that reflects on the generational relationship between the filmmaker and his son. The film can be understood as a reflection on the failure of the technical exteriorization of memory, which compels the self to undertake the effort of narrative construction. The article argues that the sense of photographic testimony is structured through a confrontation with the biography of the other, in a play of identity and difference that can be conceptualized through the concept of transindividual developed by Gilbert Simondon.