Michelle Memran will share films and facilitate discussion about creative collaboration, representation, narrative health, bearing witness, and truth-telling.The first film is The Rest I Make Up showing on Wednesday 11th June at 3pm.

When renowned playwright María Irene Fornés stops writing due to Alzheimer’s, her friendship with a young filmmaker sparks a new artistic practice. Made over a decade, The Rest I Make Up is an intimate and collaborative documentary about a visionary artist who lived and wrote outside convention, and a tender story about memory, presence, queer intergenerational friendship, and creative connection.

The film premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and continues to screen worldwide. It was named one of “The Best Films of 2018” by Richard Brody in The New Yorker, who wrote:

“Above all, the movie embodies Fornés’s inherently and irrepressibly creative presence. The text alone, transcribed, would be a primer in live-wire poetic lucidity.”

Links for further reading:

“An Extraordinary Documentary Portrait of a Playwright facing Alzheimer’s Disease.” The New Yorker, 2018

“Review: In ‘The Rest I Make Up,’ a Playwright’s Life as Memories Ebb.” The New York Times, 2018

“Towards Aspirational Care Labor: Dementia Care Meets Documentary Filmmaking” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Autumn 2023

“Therapeutic Filmmaking, Artistic Collaboration, and Dementia: Exploring Possibilities with Filmmaker Michelle Memran” Caring for the Ages, 2023

"In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See: Michelle Memran Interviewed by Alix Lambert." BOMB, 2018

“And What of the Night? Helen Shaw on Maria Irene Fornes.” Artforum, 2018

Please note that this ticket is for the showing of The Rest I Make Up on Wednesday 11th June ONLY. If you would like to attend the second film First Cousin Once Removed, please book separately here.

The Rest I make up - part of Creative Brain Week Film Programme