ME

ME focuses on the gradual loss of self-recognition experienced by people living with Alzheimer’s disease. The film is structured around the patient’s first-person perspective, using a series of evolving words to represent different stages of memory loss, while condensing these stages into the story of a single day.

The sequence progresses from:

me → time → home → name → shame → game

Each word corresponds to a different aspect of the patient’s experience: gradually forgetting the passage of time, losing the sense of direction toward home, forgetting their own name, feeling ashamed of their condition, and eventually interpreting other people’s frustration as if it were part of a game.

The film ultimately moves from:

“Do I remember you?” → “Do you remember me?” → “Please remember me.”

Through this progression, the film transforms individual memory loss into an emotional reflection on memory, identity, and social understanding.

OBSERVE

Alzheimer’s disease is often described simply as a decline in memory. Yet from the patient’s perspective, what gradually disappears may be more than memory itself—it may also be the ability to confirm “Who am I?”

Therefore, rather than approaching the subject through medical information or conventional disease education, I chose to place the audience in the patient’s perspective and translate “forgetting” into a series of ordinary moments that gradually become uncontrollable.

The audience experiences how a person slowly loses their sense of time, family, name, and eventually even themselves.

At the same time, the theme of forgetting reminded me of Coco. Although the two works address death and illness respectively, they both raise a similar question:

When a person is no longer remembered, does their connection to the world disappear as well?

In Coco, the idea that “death is not the end; being forgotten is” points toward the ultimate disappearance that occurs when a person is completely forgotten after death. In ME, however, forgetting takes place while life is still continuing. A person is still physically present, yet may gradually lose their name, memories, relationships, and even their sense of who they are.

Therefore, through the constantly weakened and fragmented symbol of “ME,” I wanted to transform “forgetting” from simply a symptom of disease into a metaphor for identity, existence, and human connection.

The film ultimately moves from “Please remember me” toward “We cherish all forgotten.” Rather than asking only what patients are still able to remember, I wanted to shift the question toward:

When they begin to forget, what can we still remember for them?

Process image — pending

EXPERIMENT

The project began with research into Alzheimer’s disease and its common symptoms. I developed the “ME” word structure and translated each keyword into a specific narrative situation, using transitions between events to connect these individual moments into a complete story.

I then developed the visual settings for the characters, environments, and props, designed the storyboard, and used AIGC to generate static images before transforming them into animated materials.

During production, I focused on maintaining visual consistency across characters, environments, and props, as well as creating smooth transitions and camera movements between scenes.

Through editing, I controlled the emotional progression of the film, allowing the word structure, visual transformation, and the protagonist’s psychological state to develop simultaneously.

Tools: GPT Image 2, Nano Banana, Jimeng, Kling, DeepSeek, RunningHub

Process image — pending

REFLECT

The mirrored structure of “ME → WE” led me to reconsider what it means to remember a person.

As the perspective expands from the individual patient to their family, and eventually to society as a whole, forgetting is no longer simply an individual problem of memory. It becomes a question of identity, relationships, and social care.

Memory does not exist only within an individual’s mind; it also exists within the relationships between people.

When patients gradually lose their memories, perhaps their families, friends, and society can still preserve the memories that tell them who they are.

Therefore, the final transition from “Please remember me” to “We cherish all forgotten” represents, to me, more than a request to be remembered. It expresses a more active form of care:

When a person begins to forget who they are, are we willing to remember for them?

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