Your dad forgets your face. You turn his scrambled mind into art.
Ron, the filmmaker’s father, has a brain injury that affects his ability to situate himself and retain memories. Upon realising that her father no longer recognises her, the director decides to turn her father’s notebooks into a film that plunges us into the complexities of memory and the brain, full of creativity, humour and tenderness.
Direction
Beumer turns medical trauma into visual poetry
Editing
Jagged cuts mirror Ron's fractured consciousness
Writing
Notebooks become dialogue with a disappearing man
Director
Karina Beumer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Beumer worked with neuroscientists to ensure the film's fragmented structure neurologically mirrors how anoxic brain injury actually disrupts memory encoding.
Part of a wave of 'dementia documentaries' (Dick Johnson Is Dead, The Father) but rare for being directed by the affected child rather than an observer.
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