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DRIFT
Screening at the Ascona Film Festival
Switzerland
"Drift" is a poetic musing on solitude,
isolation, loss and acceptance. The
project was an immensely personal
process, an exercise I undertook while
coming to terms with my father's
vascular dementia. I had a sense that we
were both drowning, my father with the
disease, and me as I failed to
comprehend losing him. I looked to the
Internet for answers and found numerous
sites on the technical horrors of the
disease process. I also found a wealth
of information for caregivers, plus
blogs for caregivers to share their
stories and sorrows. I found very little
for actual sufferers of cognitive
damage. I eventually found the Center
for Brain Health in Dallas Texas, an
amazing collection of practitioners and
researchers. Their committed staff of
researchers and practitioners are
focused on the individual, not the
caregiver. Their point of view stems
from the belief that no matter how far
the disease has progressed, the core of
the individual is still present, and
what matters is what’s present, not what
has been lost.
"Drift"
has also screened at the Merwin
Gallery Illinois Wesleyan
University, the Chicago Intl REEL
Short Film Festival, the Simultan
Media Arts Festival Romania, and the
Antena Gallery Chicago.
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Drift, video still
Drift, video still