Ukiah Library is presenting a screening of the PBS/POB documentary, The Genius of Marian, on Sunday, June 4^th at 2 pm.

The Genius of Marian is an intimate and courageous portrait of filmmaker Banker White’s 61-year-old mother, who is struggling with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. As importantly, it is a film in which paintings, home movies, photos and current footage come together to depict a family afflicted with Alzheimer’s in two generations—and fighting to cope with loss while holding on to its collective memory.

Pam White, whose mother died of Alzheimer’s, is the center of this story and the family, even as the disease drains her memories and alters her personality. Yet, somehow, through all the comic and tragic incidents that mark the illness’s inexorable progress, Pam, her husband and her kids, find something in themselves, as a family, that can’t be taken away. Even late in the film, in a lucid moment, Pam says, “This doesn’t really change anything.” http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/pressroom/2014/07/the-genius-of-marian-premieres-on-pbs-pov/

The Genius of Marian is directed by Banker White and Anna Fitch and is a co-production of WeOwnTV and Impact Partners in association with American Documentary / POV.