The Re-membered father

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“The relationship with my father was very much like a void.”

Jesse Lee Garrett came home from WWII, but never truly returned. A veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, he was trapped in the past—his body in rural Michigan, his spirit still at war.

His daughter Karen only knew him as an absence: silent, withdrawn, unreachable. At 17, she was a Powder Puff quarterback fighting for her father’s love—while he fought memories too painful to name. One snowy night, he shows up at her game. She plays the best game of her life. But when she turns to the sidelines, he’s gone.

Years later, asked to eulogize him, all she can remember is the pain and disappointment.
So she begins a journey—not just to understand what happened in the war, but what happened to him.

“When you live with PTSD, you're not fully present. Your body and mind and spirit are in the past. You have no control over that.”

This film follows Karen’s search to re-member a dismembered father.
To take the fragments—his silence, her grief, the missing pieces—and create something whole.

Based on Karen Jones’ powerful Moth story Forgiven and her blog See Our Soldier, The Re-Membered Father is a hand-painted, emotionally moving portrait of war, memory, and the possibility of healing.