You're looking at me like I live here and I don't
By: a film by Scott Kirschenbaum ; produced by Shane Boris, Scott Kirschenbaum ; co-produced by Gracey Nagle ; produced by Peripheral Productions
Contributors: Peripheral Productions (Firm)
Publisher: Peripheral Productions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Molalla, OR]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease; Biography; Patients; Care; Alzheimer Disease; Personal Narratives
Other titles: Independent lens (Television program)
Description: "The first documentary filmed in an Alzheimer's unit told from the perspective of an Alzheimer's patient. In Danville, California, Lee Gorewitz wanders on a personal odyssey through her Alzheimer's & Dementia care unit. From the moment she wakes up, Lee is on a quest-- for reminders of her past, and her identity. A total immersion into the fragmented day-to-day experience of mental illness, 'You're looking at me like I live here and I don't' is filled with charismatic vitality and penetrating ruminations that challenge our preconceptions of illness and aging. Here is one extraordinary woman who will not let us forget her, even as she struggles to remember herself."--Container.
Notes: Broadcast on public television by PBS as an episode of the television program Independent Lens.

Originally produced in 2011.

"Alzheimer's took her memory. Nothing can take her spirit."--Container.

Director of photography, Michael Sly ; edited by Stuart Sloan, Susie Lichter ; original score, Nadia Shihab.

Featuring, Lee Gorewitz.

DVD, NTSC region 1.

Official selection for Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and DocAviv International Film Festival.