All the World's Memory
All the World's Memory

All the World's Memory

7.0(43 votes)
1956
0h 21m
Documentary

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.

Production

Les Films de la Pléiade

Cast

Jacques Dumesnil

Jacques Dumesnil

Self / Narrator (voice)

Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

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