Eriko Watanabe

Memories of Tomorrow -- Memories of Tomorrow, a short film by Joslyn Rose Lyons starring Noah Griffin and featuring Ayanna Makalani encapsulates the heartbreaking moments between a father and daughter confronting the formers descent into dementia. Arthur, the father, played by Griffin is clearly in his own world writing poetry, blissfully unaware of and unwilling to acknowledge his own diminished capacity , not remembering his wife s death or his daughter s weekly Sunday visit. Brought back to the reality of and the reason for her presence, he quickly retreats to the poem he s been working on hoping it will ground him and focus his daughter, Melody played by Makalani, on his present reality. Undeterred in the purpose of her visit, Melody calmly and firmly, but not without emotion states her reasons as to why her father, now a widower, can no longer function on his own.