Without memories, the future is impossible, not because the past can predict what will happen, but because it allows us see the movements and paths that we have unwittingly taken.  It is memory that allows our stories to be recorded, to be written.  Writing is itself a form of memory, as are visual records.  From stone carvings to videodisks, people have always attempted to mark their passing, the movements of which they were a part.  Yet, memory is itself always moving, changing one thing into another.—Teshome Gabriel

Teshome Gabriel, Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar, longtime professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and expert on cinema and film of Africa and the developing world.

Articles & Other Works
by Teshome Gabriel

Part I

• Introduction
• Third Cinema Updated

• Colonialism and 'Law and Order' Criticism
• Third cinema as Guardian of Popular Memory
• Memory and Identity: The Search for the Origins of the River Nile
• Towards a critical theory of Third World films

• The Intolerable Gift
• Thoughts on Nomadic Aesthetics and the Black Independent Cinema
• Ruin and The Other: Towards a Language Of Memory
• Stone
• Notes on Weavin' Digital

Teshome has a scholarship in his name. (UCLA)