DON'T FORGET TO REMEMBER
Friday, February 28 • 3:00 PM • T2
Q&A with director Ross Killeen, moderated by artist Sheldon Scott
Documentary Feature | East Coast Premiere
There is an inherent understanding of the grieving process when a family loses a loved one, but what if that person is not yet gone? DON’T FORGET TO REMEMBER is an artist’s exploration of the fragility of memory and the lived experience of his mother’s advancing Alzheimer’s — but it also celebrates a family’s life lived together. In collaboration with the artist Asbestos, the film opens an honest conversation about the delicate nature of memory. Through the artist’s process, the film suggests that even though Alzheimer’s brings elements of disintegration and destruction, we can never truly lose a loved one if we hold on to our collective memories.
DIR Ross Killeen; PROD Louise Byrne; DOP Narayan Van Maele; SCORE James Latimer. Ireland, 2024, color, 77 min. NOT RATED
Funded by The Arts Council through Reel Art.
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Ross Killeen is a film director based in Dublin. He founded the award winning production company, Motherland, which works across film, commercials and music videos. Ross’ directorial debut feature documentary LOVE YOURSELF TODAY, centered on the music of Damien Dempsey and had a nationwide cinematic release in Ireland. The film was nominated for an IFTA and also played all over the UK, New York and Australia. Killeen’s other films include: 99 PROBLEMS, a short documentary which looked at the murky underworld of the Dublin ice cream business; and BECOMING MEN, Killeen’s first short film which put his company, Motherland, on the map as a maker of authentic documentary films. 99 PROBLEMS premiered at Tribeca film festival in New York and won the audience award at Dublin International Film Festival. It also played at Sheffield Film Festival and Raindance in the UK.
Sheldon Scott is a visual artist who mines his experiences growing up in the Gullah/Geechee South and professional background in storytelling to examine the Black male form with particular emphasis on biases of usability and expendability in relation to constructs of race, economics and sexuality. His works have been presented at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; American University Art Museum, Washington, DC; and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC. As a finalist in the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Scott will present work in the exhibition, The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.
DINNER AND A MOVIE DEAL
Our festival partner, McGinty's Public House, has generously offered an ongoing discount from February 27 through March 2 for all CIFF ticket holders! When you dine at the restaurant, show your CIFF ticket or pass for a 10% off discount on your bill. Located just around the corner from AFI Silver Theatre, McGinty's (911 Ellsworth Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910) is the perfect place to grab a bite to eat between screenings.
The Capital Irish Film Festival is supported by the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme, Culture Ireland, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Embassy of Ireland, Northern Ireland Bureau, Northern Ireland Screen, and the Irish Film Institute’s IFI International Programme supported by Culture Ireland. Solas Nua is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.
