Memory is the Lining of Forgetting

"I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather  its lining.  We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten."

---Chris Marker,  Sans Soleil (1982)

In his documentary film Sans Soleil, Chris Marker casts memory as a creative act as opposed to a retrieval act.