Forget Me Not
VERGISS MEIN NICHT takes us on a very personal journey. The filmmaker's mother is suffering from very serious dementia and, in order to lessen his father's burden, he moves back in with his parents for a few weeks. While his father recovers a bit in Switzerland, the son tries his best to care for his mother and accompanies her with his camera. He manages to share wonderfully light moments with his confused mother. She is losing her memory and her ability to speak, but yet in spite of it all he is often met with an unexpected pun or something like a poetry of wisdom.
Homeplay
Bewohner/innen eines Alten- und Pflegeheimes filmen mit Super8-Kameras ihren Alltag – alles, was ihnen wichtig erscheint. Die Filmemacherin Margarete Rabow ihrerseits filmt die Bewohner/innen auf 16mm-Material – in Porträts und in ihren Gruppenaktivitäten, die vom Alten- und Pflegeheim angeboten werden. Am Ende fügt sie alles Material zusammen. Es ist nicht mehr erkennbar, welche Sequenzen von den Bewohner/innen selbst kommen und welche von der Filmemacherin. Die Eindrücke der Künstlerin vermischen sich mit der Befindlichkeit der Bewohner/innen und ergeben ein berührendes Bild zwischen Experiment und Dokumentation, das durch den O-Ton noch unterstrichen wird. Hier antworten die alten Menschen auf die Frage: "Haben Sie Angst vor dem Sterben?".
- Deutschland
- 09:30 Min.
- Director: Margarete Rabow
- Languages: deutsch
- Year: 2011
Forget Me Not
VERGISS MEIN NICHT takes us on a very personal journey. The filmmaker's mother is suffering from very serious dementia and, in order to lessen his father's burden, he moves back in with his parents for a few weeks. While his father recovers a bit in Switzerland, the son tries his best to care for his mother and accompanies her with his camera. He manages to share wonderfully light moments with his confused mother. She is losing her memory and her ability to speak, but yet in spite of it all he is often met with an unexpected pun or something like a poetry of wisdom.
- Deutschland
- 88:00 Min.
- Director: David Sieveking
- Production: Martin Heisle, CarlLudwig Rettinger
- Photography: Adrian Stähli
- Editing: Catrin Vogt
- Music: Jessica de Rooij
- Sound: Johannes Schmelzer, Juri Georg von Krause
- Languages: deutsch
- Year: 2012