Toute la mémoire du monde (English: All the Memory in the World) is a documentary short film by Alain Resnais released in 1956.

Synopsis

An essay on the potential and limits of dutifully archived human knowledge, masquerading as a documentary on the organisation of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Toute la mémoire du monde

Collaborators

Gérard Willemetz

Pierre Goupil

Anne Sarraute

Roger Fleytoux

Claude Joudioux

Jean Cayrol

André Goeffers

Jean-Charles Lauthe

Chris Marker (as Chris and Magic Marker) Dominique Raoul-Duval Chester Gould Denise York Benigne Caceres Agnès Varda Monique Le Porrier Paulette Borker André Heinrich Madame Searle Lee Falk Phil Davis Marie-Claire Pasquier Robert Rendigal François-Régis Bastide Giulietta Caputo Joseph Rovan Claudine Merlin

Toute la mémoire du monde

External links

1956 films

French black-and-white films

Films directed by Alain Resnais

1950s short documentary films

French short documentary films

1956 documentary films

1950s French-language films

1950s French films

Toute la mémoire du monde