A Knowledge They Cannot Lose (1989)
DirectorNina Fonoroff
17 minJan 1st, 1989
Plot
Using both found footage and her own material Nina Fonoroff recollects the memory of her father Constructing and deconstructing a portrait she weaves family and friends remembrances with an inquiry into her own work process Her searching attitude suggests that with the loss of her father came a question of the role not of a particular father but the father figurea refusal of authority and an appreciation of her fathers cycles of learning teaching learning As Danny Kaye playing Hans Christian Andersen tells a group of children the story of the piece of chalk that saw itself as a the source not the transmitter of knowledge one senses Fonoroffs sorrow at the loss inherent in the film image and a yearning for the source of the image not just its projection
