California Documentary Project
Forget Me Not
Open Eye Pictures, Inc.
Producer and Director: Andy Abrahams Wilson
The story of the Aids Memorial in Golden Gate Park
The one-hour documentary tells the story of the Aids Memorial in San Francisco from its beginnings as a landscape grove maintained by volunteers to its position today as a nationally designated memorial site.
The film combines time-lapse photography, archival footage, home movies and interviews with the people involved in the evolution of the site. Also featured are stories of individuals who have lost their lives to AIDS and the stories of their survivors. “Inherent in the narrative is the idea that the memorial embodies the stories of thousands of people,” said Andy Abrahams Wilson, the producer and director of the film.
“We hope that the film will inspire questions about what constitutes ‘memorial’ in a time of loss and how this particular memorial serves to commemorate the many lives lost to the AIDS epidemic,” Wilson added.