I Remember Me

The Eco Film on Friday, March 19th: I Remeber Me

Won 2 awards and 1 film festival nomination

Genre: Documentary. Director: Kim Snyder. USA, 2000. 74 minutes.

In 1984-85, people at Lake Tahoe fell ill with flu symptoms, but they didn’t get better. The same had happened in 1934 at LA county hospital, in 1948-49 in Iceland, in 1956 in Punta Gorda, Florida. The malady now has a name, chronic fatigue syndrome, and filmmaker Kim Snyder, who suffered from the disease for several years, tells her story and talks to victims and their families, and to physicians and researchers: is it viral, is it psychosomatic, is it one disease or several (a syndrome); what’s the Center for Disease Control doing about it; what’s it like to have a disease that’s not yet understood? With creative and expressive cinematography Kim Snyder lets the viewer into her world, sharing the feelings, fears, and dreams of reality so frequently associated with chronic illness. “I Remember Me” is a must-see documentary for anyone interested in illness and the ways in which it impacts lives.