Entropy of a Memory

Experimental Documentary

Entropy of a Memory examines grief through the lens of degenerative illness and cognitive decline. Archival family photos and phone interviews with my mother and grandmother interweave into an experimental documentary about their responses to the loss of my aunt from Multiple Sclerosis. The speakers reflect upon realizations that the person they know has changed, and the numbness long-term anticipatory grief has instilled in them. In voicing their experience as a story, they begin to process the loss as a whole.