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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Howard Gardner argues that a principle goal of developing the human mind must be "disciplinary with memorization. At the same time, he illustrates how intuitive theories of the "unschooled mind" make disciplinary understanding both counter-intuitive and difficult to develop-from the sciences and math, to the arts and humanities. Moving toward the goal of key understandings across the academic, artistic, and even moral domains, Gardner demonstrates...
2) Lavender
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lavender is a taut psychological thriller that bends the line between memory and madness, past and present, like a splinter in the brain struggling to escape. Jane (Abbie Cornish) has always photographed old and abandoned farmhouses for as long as she can remember. It's a hobby bordering on obsession that has bloomed into a successful career. Until one day she photographs a particular house...and everything changes. A tragic car accident leaves her...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jelena’s Song is an elegantly structured visual and sonic poem about the transformative power that emerges from an artist’s journey through memory and the rituals of everyday life. Like memory itself, the film gathers fragments of images, freeze frames, faded family photographs and youthful photo-booth self-portraits, journals, poetry, an evocative sound design and the simple honesty of Jelena’s voice into a lyrical tapestry that reconstructs...
4) Rememory
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.
5) Glass lips
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A kaleidoscope of surreal, provocative, and resonant imagery, in Glass lips Majewski explores a hidden human frontier where memory, madness, and imagination meet. Composed of 33 short films entitled Blood of a poet, the film opened the 2006 Lech Majewski Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A year later, the Venice Biennale presented it on multiple screens, prior to the theatrical release in the feature form offered here.
6) Memento
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"One of the first things you need to ask is, how did you survive this? This is amazing that you're still here. It's amazing that you still have the guts to go on with your life. What is allowing you to function? What are you good at? What gives you comfort?" Bessel van der Kolk. Research undertaken for the DSM-IV revealed that survivors of repeated and severe childhood trauma generally experience a common set of problems as adults. This video series...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Observe how preschoolers begin to use language, mental imagery and symbolic thinking; think of past and future events; and think about their own thinking. See preschoolers as they start to clearly express themselves and grasp sophisticated mental activities, including emotion, motivation, intention and memory. Learn how neural bridges grow and strengthen a child's intellect, widely studied development theories of cognitive development and how to encourage...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isn't happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them." Bessel van der Kolk. In this program, Bessel van der Kolk and others examine how dissociation functions as a defense against overwhelming stress, how the mind processes...
12) Unknown
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Five men awaken to find themselves in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are soon forced to figure out who their true enemy is, in a fight against each other to stay alive.
13) Jason Bourne
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jason Bourne, the CIA's most dangerous former operative, now remembers who he truly is and comes out of hiding to uncover more hidden truths about his past.
14) Finding Dory
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Dory, the forgetful blue tang, suddenly remembers she has a family who may be looking for her, she, Marlin, and Nemo take off on a life-changing quest to find them, with help from Hank, a cantankerous octopus; Bailey, a beluga whale who's convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark! Dive into the movie overflowing with unforgettable characters, dazzling animation, and gallons of fun!
15) Total recall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
16) Memory
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Alex, an expert assassin, refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target. FBI agents and Mexican intelligence are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies, leading them closer to Alex. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his every move. Alex must question his every action and whom...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...
18) Memento
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Shawn Spencer pretends to be a psychic. No one really believes him, but he continues to be so helpful to the police that they keep calling him in on cases they can't solve. Shawn brings his childhood friend, Gus, into his scheme, and between their bantering they manage to solve every case they're presented with.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Thanks to a childhood spend with a family of cops, Shawn Spencer possesses an incredible photographic memory and notices seemingly insignificant details. These traits allow him to spend his jobless days providing the police with mystery-solving tips-- but his knowledge soon makes him a suspect. In order to clear his name, the unlikely sleuth declares that he has clairvoyant abilities and launches his own investigative agency, Psych. His skeptical...
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