I propose to create a new site-specific film, video, and sound installation and experimental archive exploring layers of time, materiality, and Rome itself as a city of memory and appropriation. Taking as points of departure the avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton’s notion of an “infinite film,” which theorizes an underlying connectivity in all recorded images, and the ancient Method of Loci (Cicero, Quintilian), which involves the storage of memory in imaginary architectures, this project explores the memorial and optic impulse of the Eternal City and its many protagonists. While in residence I will visit Italian film archives (Cinecitta Luce/Archivio Storico, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Cineteca di Bologna), study Roman spatiomemorial inventions (e.g., Acta Diurna – “publicare et propagare”) and create new texts, field recordings, and short films. These narratives, documents, and compositions will culminate in the aforementioned cinematic installation and site-specific archive.