The Memory Boom (2024) on Netflix
An experimental film recreates dementia through spoken word, documentary, dramatic reconstruction and anonymously donated 16mm archive footage. A man's fading memory is the subject.
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Plot summary
An experimental work about dementia, built from several kinds of material. Spoken word passages, documentary sections and enacted scenes sit alongside 16mm archive footage that was given without a name and had not been shown before. That footage has aged and begun to break down. The damage to the celluloid is set against the decline of a memory, so that the medium and the mind fall apart together. The film asks what can be found inside the head of a man whose memory is going. The experience is presented as joyful and pleasurable, as if only the good things are recalled.
