Confessions of a Compulsive Archivist

by Mary Daniel

7 min. film/video hybrid. 2004

An intimate study of the relationship between the imagination and the impulse to archive, Mary J. Daniel’s Confessions of a Compulsive Archivist is one piece of an ongoing adaptable anthology of film and video poems inspired by the process of watching her mother succumb to a dementia affecting her ability to picture things. Built from the discovered and recovered artifacts of first her own then her mother’s storage closet, it follows the filmmaker’s struggle to let go of a few things of obviously no use to her, and turns into a piece about patterns.

Festivals

Vancouver International Film Festival, October 2005
Inside/Out Festival, May 2005
Images Festival, APril 2005
The Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, September 2004