This unconventional documentary from Ross Killeen (Love Yourself Today) is an emotive human story featuring the artist Asbestos and his journey through the slow decay of his mother’s memories as they disintegrate due to her advancing Alzheimer’s disease. His work represents the fragility of memory in images, which are themselves fragile and transient. Together Killeen and Asbestos consider the brittleness of memory and find that even though Alzheimer’s brings elements of disintegration and destruction, the memories we have of our loved ones will endure and last, even if they’ve disintegrated in the mind of the sufferer.

The film is at once a moving portrait of one woman’s memory loss but also a celebration of a loving family coming together in the face of this condition.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn