Tag: 2017

Memory isn’t Dumb: A Review of A Hotel Called Memory

If we take Bela Tarr’s Dancing in the Pub as an exciting encounter with silence, then Akin Omotoso’s A Hotel Called Memory, however, does something less aesthetic—if not outrightly absurd—with the form. Firstly, Mr. Omotoso tells us memory is synonymous with silence, and goes on to render memory dumb, cuts off a vital part of […]