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Through his video installations, Omer Fast has focused on the recreation of all kinds of existing footage in order to suggest the power and limitations of art to interpret memory and history. So it’s fitting that his first fiction feature is an adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s 2005 novel Remainder, which revolves around an unnamed Londoner who becomes obsessed with reconstructing events from the past he barely remembers. The film, which proffers a Memento-like mystery with a twist seemingly out of Synecdoche, New York, is Fast’s depiction of a man’s war against the fog of his traumatized mind.Read More »