Living Memory Anne Rees Mogg, 1980

Living Memory is a physical journey (by light aircraft, car and foot), circling the landscape of the ReesMogg family home at Temple Cloud in Somerset. It is built, in the filmmakers own words, around a ragbag of quotations, another threading of beads on a string, borrowing words from T. S. Eliots poem Ash Wednesday, Collinsons History of Somerset, A. J Ayer Goethe, Pevsner and Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy. According to Anne ReesMogg, the title is a cliché revisited: it refers to the layers of her own and other peoples memory of the place where she grew up. Living Memory closes a trilogy with Real Time and Sentimental Journey in which the filmmaker explores the landscape where she spent her early life, and to some extent the people who helped her to inhabit it.