a function of forgetting
dir. Madison McMillen
2023
Running time: 17 min.
Twenty years after life-saving brain surgery left him with permanent memory loss and in the wake of his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a filmmaker and her father explore what it means to remember when forgetting is inevitable.
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Twenty years after life-saving brain surgery left him with permanent memory loss and in the wake of his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a filmmaker and her father explore what it means to remember when forgetting is inevitable.
Madison
McMillen
Madison McMillen is a documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist from Kansas City. Originally intending to take the more traditional writing and reporting route, she decided last minute to follow her bent towards the creative and took a chance on the newly-combined photo and documentary emphasis. Over the past two years, she’s worked as a staff photographer and photo editor for the Columbia Missourian, before eventually working as the Associate Director of Photography. McMillen graduates with her degree in Photo and Documentary Journalism in May 2023.