A House With Many Voices

Voices that take shape in memory an empty house a piano that is now missing Vivian Forrester said that for Duras the act of speech to achieve was love in its whole or absolute desire The one that can be silence or singing or screaming It is what governs memory and forgetfulness suffering and hope This video essay proposes a dialogue between two films Morir Dormir Tal Vez Soñar Manuel Mur Oti 1976 India Song Marguerite Duras 1975 On the one hand to claim a beautiful forgotten rarity of Spanish cinema and on the other to claim that cinema after all is a house with many voices