Movie Details
Original Language:English
I Just Want to Wake Up
"Snippets of nighttime conversations and drawings create a sense of the pandemic world Heather finds herself in juggling work homeschooling her daughter and taking care of her mother who has Alzheimers"Movie
DirectorHeather Frise
3 min
Plot
My mother has been living with me and my teenaged daughter part time for the last year When the pandemic hit we lost our personal support workers and I found myself juggling caretaking homeschooling and work Because of Alzheimers my mothers mind is slowly departing but her essence has not changed Much of what she has been experiencing for years profound disorientation anxiety mental fogis what I was experiencing during isolation With snippets of night time conversations and a stack of my drawings Ive created a sense of our world together a world of overlapping thought lapses bent time lost words the absurd and love Heather Frise
