The Memory Thief

Written and directed by Gil Kofman, a playwright making his feature film debut, "The Memory Thief" follows a young man (Mark Webber) as he becomes obsessed with recording and watching testimonies of aging Holocaust survivors. He quickly begins to unravel, envisioning himself as having suffered the atrocities he hears of. There are intriguing issues swirling around the film -- how do we process the [...] Vai alla recensione »

In “The Memory Thief,” a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past. For Lukas (Mark Webber), a lonely Los Angeles tollbooth operator, life is literally passing him by. But when an irascible Holocaust survivor introduces him to the world of oral history, Lukas’s empathy quickly becomes obsession.