Lost Down Memory Lane
Director Klara Van Es
Countries Belgium, Netherlands
Duration 90 min
Synopsis
Lost down Memory Lane is the first documentary about Alzheimer's exclusively seen through the patients’ eyes. The film is a ‘tranche de vie’ of Iduna, an apartment house where eight aging ladies with dementia share their disease and their lives. Above all it becomes the portrait of a brutal disease that irreversible expropriates the memory. By telling the story of the disease as seen through the patients it results in a simple, honest and unique approach. Alzheimer’s hasn’t overruled all their mental abilities yet, they are –scientifically speaking– in the first phase of the disease. Meaning that flurries of lucidity, oblivion and absence take turns continuously. They are, in their own way, perfectly capable of telling and showing what losing your memory really is about. Their life – though on the edge of consciousness – goes on. Followed over a years time none of the characters are eventually the same anymore. They may even have disappeared completely, physically or mentally.
Lost down Memory Lane is the first documentary about Alzheimer's exclusively seen through the patients’ eyes. The film is a ‘tranche de vie’ of Iduna, an apartment house where eight aging ladies with dementia share their disease and their lives. Above all it becomes the portrait of a brutal disease that irreversible expropriates the memory. By telling the story of the disease as seen through the patients it results in a simple, honest and unique approach. Alzheimer’s hasn’t overruled all their mental abilities yet, they are –scientifically speaking– in the first phase of the disease. Meaning that flurries of lucidity, oblivion and absence take turns continuously. They are, in their own way, perfectly capable of telling and showing what losing your memory really is about. Their life – though on the edge of consciousness – goes on. Followed over a years time none of the characters are eventually the same anymore. They may even have disappeared completely, physically or mentally.