Memory: The Origins of Alien
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.
Cast
Ronald Shusett
as Self
Roger Christian
as Self
Ivor Powell
as Self
Terry Rawlings
as Self
Tom Skerritt
as Self
Veronica Cartwright
as Self
Roger Corman
as Self
Gary Sherman
as Self
Carmen Scheifele-Giger
as Self
Clarke Wolfe
as Self
Reviews
SWITCH.
What makes ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’ interesting is the way, as one critic puts it, “it was a synthesis that wasn’t done consciously“ of Giger’s biomechanical designs, Scott’s eye for striking compositions and O’Bannon’s fear of insects and the unknown. The Xenomorph, a symbiotic monster and cl...
Sheldon Nylander
Honestly, there's not much to say about "Memory." Or rather, there isn't much to say about "Alien" that hasn't really been said before. Most of the information is stuff that's been talked about before. It was interesting to see some more information about the original idea for "Alien," that being th...
