15/10/2025
Going to Chicago !
Thanks Mental Filmness Film Festival Chicago 2025 for this lovely review of my film My Memories! 💚
You’ve truly captured the essence of our message, and that makes us really proud to participate at your Festival !
I invite everyone to watch and discover this film — and many other inspiring ones — online 🎬✨
Virtual Festival Highlight! - Let's talk about a short short that packs a lot of punch--from Shorts Block No. 1 in the virtual fest, "My Memories" by Alvaro Garcia.
My Memories is another good "in" to the festival because it's a short and sweet sci-fi genre film, with perhaps a twist of melancholy and a philosophical bent. Some of the best premises for films are simple and yet profound, like this one: an elderly man's daughter is trying to retrieve his memories from a corporate service that has digitized and stored them. The only problem is, they gave them the "wrong" memories.
As the captured memories flit by on the screen, the aggrieved daughter asks her father if he recognizes them. They don't seem to line up or ring familiar, but when the man is moved by an image, the short film poses a deep human question: memory is fallible, and many of us lose our memories by the end of our lives. Our memories are never entirely accurate---even hours after an event occurred they recontextualize, and especially years later, they change based on our experience and perception. But if they move us, do these altered memories still "belong" to us in some way---and if they move us, does it matter?
For something short and on the lighter side that still makes you think, you can't do better than Alvaro Garcia's short "My Memories," now playing for FREE in Shorts Block No. 1 of the Mental Filmness virtual festival. Check it out here! https://watch.eventive.org/mentalfilmness2025/play/68e17633e582e8cf85ef4891/68c70a3c5c0e06f0a961b2e6
