This screening will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an accessible and informal post-screening discussion hosted by James Mooney, lecturer in film and philosophy (Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh).

Imagine a procedure whereby you could rid yourself of troubling memories. Suppose that you could have particular people or traumatic events erased from your mind. When their relationship turns sour, Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) undertake just such a procedure only to discover, perhaps too late, exactly what they stand to lose. Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind invites us to consider the vital importance of our memories, both good and bad, in making us the person we are.