Surprised this reference hasn't been noticed
One of the most important references to me, and I'm surprised it isn't in the Trivia section, is the name of the town: Swann Valley.
If this isn't a deliberate reference to Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" I'd be stunned.
Here is essayist Roger Shattuck on Proust's work:
Thus the novel embodies and manifests the principle of intermittence: to live means to perceive different and often conflicting aspects of reality. This iridescence never resolves itself completely into a unitive point of view. Accordingly, it is possible to project out of the Search itself a series of putative and intermittent authors... The portraitist of an expiring society, the artist of romantic reminiscence, the narrator of the laminated "I," the classicist of formal structure--all these figures are to be found in Proust
I think this theme plays into FFC's original intent to create different mash-ups of his raw footage thereby creating different "movies" or versions of the events.
The recurring theme of involuntary memory in "Search" also plays into the story theme in the one version of "Twixt" FFC was forced to make.
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