Speaking of Silence: Exploring Family Memory Loss

Family;Loss;Communication;Grief;Depression;Suicide;School of Art & Design

Finelli, AdrianneWade, Kathleen ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Family;    Loss;    Communication;    Grief;    Depression;    Suicide;    School of Art & Design;   

Others  :  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/85165/Finelli_Final_Thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

瑞士|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

This paper will offer justification for the creation of my thesis projects: Everything Is Still: An examination of home movie moments and too soon too late.For several years my work has dealt with families and loss with a special interest in communication.My thesis work addresses grief within my own family concerning my grandmother’s depression and suicide.When I began this project I thought of it as a video intervention with my father and his siblings to discuss memories of their mother, Mary Arlene, and her suicide on December 21, 1983.It is a culmination of several years of research and difficult conversations. This past Christmas, while in production on the above project, I experienced the loss of my maternal grandmother, Lucille, to depression-induced suicide. Through working with my father’s family, I began to realize how important it is to address grief directly and seek therapy; after this recent loss, with the support of my professors and peers I began working with a therapist.The grieving process has complicated and changed the course of my project, which is why I chose to present it in two parts. Both projects explore loss within the context of family systems and reinterpret home movies of the 1940s-1960s.I am interested in what families chose to document/reveal and when families stop documenting/remembering.