Nieudane rekonsolidacje pamięci. Widma aborygeńskiego życia w „Limbo” Ivana Sena
Failed Memory Reconsolidations: Spectres of Aboriginal Life in Ivan Sen’s “Limbo”

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the film Limbo (2023), directed by Ivan Sen, as a work that revises current strategies of Australian memory politics and challenges the process of collective memory reconsolidation. The Indigenous director departs from the formula of revisionist Western, dominant in reformist Australian cinema, in favour of the poetics of film noir and the conventions of science fiction. This strategy allows for a deconstruction of Australia’s founding myths, including the concept of terra nullius and the ‘lost children’ motif. The article provides a detailed discussion of the concept of memory reconsolidation – understood as the process of re-stabilising memories in an altered form, which occurs on a social scale through institutional and cultural media such as film. Furthermore, by referencing the memory politics of the John Howard government and the History Wars, the author argues that Sen’s film portrays the failure of both the memory reconsolidation process and the broader project of national reconciliation.

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