Clare Chong's "Please Dream of Me"
Screenshots from Clare's film "Please Dream of Me"
"In 2020, one can now enrol dementia patients into a home to get their painful memories erased and replaced with happy fantasies which will be replayed on loop till the end of the patient’s life. A new nurse at the dementia home is tasked to take care of an elderly man, during which she starts to question the morality of erasing painful memories and replacing them with artificial fantasies..."
Watch one of Class of 2014 Film alumna Clare Chong's latest short films Please Dream of Me here. Directed for the second season of 2020: The Temasek Short Film Project, the story was inspired by her late grandmother who suffered from dementia and had spent her last days in a nursing home. To read more about how Clare's personal memories made their way into this emotional film, click here