The Dressmaker
The Dressmaker is about Marie, a dressmaker who is afraid to lose her memories and thereby forgetting everything she loves in life. So she decides to do something about it and starts a diary, especially for the benefit of her mother who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
The Dressmaker, Remnants of a Life is a short film about memories of a life and Alzheimer’s disease. The film’s major topic is memories, and it is therefore a creative investigation of personal identity – what makes us human. Because what happens if we loose our memories? What happens to our personalities? Diseases like Alzheimer’s disease destroy memories and quietly drain the lives of our relatives until you and they cannot recognize each other anymore. Dramatic as this may seem, the narrative is life-affirming, and highlights the importance of each second of one’s life, each smell and touch, like patches sewed in a lifetime. Inma will take as her starting point some moments from her mother’s life, picked from her diary.
The film’s visual side consists of mixed media, and quite a lot of energy goes into researching textiles and fabrics, and how they can be employed to tell a story and communicate feelings. Each remnant is a piece of cloth which then acts as a memento of a past experience. The piece of cloth triggers a memory and serves as a visual diary. Imna has just finished the animatic for the film.
Visit the website: kapneanimation.blogspot.com
The Dressmaker, Remnants of a Life is a short film about memories of a life and Alzheimer’s disease. The film’s major topic is memories, and it is therefore a creative investigation of personal identity – what makes us human. Because what happens if we loose our memories? What happens to our personalities? Diseases like Alzheimer’s disease destroy memories and quietly drain the lives of our relatives until you and they cannot recognize each other anymore. Dramatic as this may seem, the narrative is life-affirming, and highlights the importance of each second of one’s life, each smell and touch, like patches sewed in a lifetime. Inma will take as her starting point some moments from her mother’s life, picked from her diary.
The film’s visual side consists of mixed media, and quite a lot of energy goes into researching textiles and fabrics, and how they can be employed to tell a story and communicate feelings. Each remnant is a piece of cloth which then acts as a memento of a past experience. The piece of cloth triggers a memory and serves as a visual diary. Imna has just finished the animatic for the film.
Visit the website: kapneanimation.blogspot.com
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