“The archival kaleidoscope of Notes: Remembered and Found presents four generations of women – Anastassiou’s infant daughter is also present in the film – circling around, approximating, interrupting, and reconfiguring the origin story of the family’s displacement. This grappling with the past is both an act of reciting (repeating from memory) and re-siting (resituating) of inherited narratives, the iterations of which constitute the shared vocabulary of a cross-generational language invested in the existentially important goal of mediating and preserving the family’s history. The film thus attempts to document the act of archiving; to mediate the act of mediation; but it does so in a way that openly resists the conventional archive’s aggressive demand for mystification and the often-unbearable weight it places on the shoulders of the postmemory generation.” (Argyro Nicolaou)
