Daniel Eisenberg's film (or "memory essay," as theorist Nora Alter referred to DISPLACED PERSON) is a challenge to a conventional view of history, a provocation using traditional documentary forms: found footage, newsreels, a radio lecture of French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Razumovsky" quartets. Inspired by Marcel Ophuls' THE SORROW AND THE PITY, Eisenberg searches for his individual identity caught in the tides of history, fragments of memory repeated and collected, constructed and deconstructed. "The film resides as a third-hand statement in a second-hand world, a world of received knowledge, encoded consciously and unconsciously by the spoken word, the framed image and the interpreted musical phrase," Eisenberg wrote. "Its precautionary warning is: keep thinking, even when you cannot understand." - Stela Jelincic