Maarten de Schutter "Yet The Memory Remains"

Maarten de Schutter [GS]

In March 2023 I started archiving my mother's life - I wanted to investigate the meaning of memories, the ways in which they operate and destroy. This archiving process – it’s been over ten years now since my mother died - has been too complex and too confusing to be able to share any meaningful insights. However, I will share the different shapes and textures a memory can have, as well as the methods I've (unsuccesfully) tried to gather truth from memory. Filmmaking can't bring back the dead, even if you meticulously follow the ecology of memory in your methods. The best it can do is taxonomize. I'm not sure.

Bio:

Maarten de Schutter (02-02-1999) graduated from the Film Acadamy in 2024, studying Directing Documentary. He loves leftist cinema and is half Iranian. The films he cares about are intuitive and imperfect. At the moment Maarten is working on the project My Sweet Child, a visualization of the memories of his mother, AIDS-activist and feminist anthropologist Martine de Schutter (1965-2014).