THE AMNESIAC

Jeff Ingram lives with dissociative fugue, a rare form of amnesia that can suddenly erase his past and compel him to disappear. In 2006, after being missing for six weeks, he appeared on Good Morning America as an anonymous man with no memory, asking the public a simple question: Who am I? The answer led him back to Olympia, Washington, and to his wife Penny—one of several times Jeff would vanish and have to rebuild his life from nothing.

Dissociative fugue turns identity into a fragile construction. Each episode leaves Jeff a stranger to his own history, forced to reconstruct himself from fragments, documents, and the memories of others. Through every disappearance and return, Penny remained his anchor, guiding him back, helping him remember, rebuilding their shared life again and again—until she passed away.

Now Jeff faces his greatest fear: that another episode could erase not only his past, but Penny herself—the last traces of their love disappearing from his mind. The Amnesiac follows Jeff as he tries to understand his condition and break the cycle before it happens again. Moving through the scattered remains of his life and encounters with memory experts, friends, and family, the film becomes an existential investigation into identity, love, and the human need for continuity.

Jeff’s story unfolds like a modern myth: a man condemned to repeatedly forget who he is, and to begin again. What remains of a self when memory disappears? Is identity something we carry within us—or something others hold for us? And if forgetting offers the chance to start over, is it a curse… or a dangerous form of freedom?




INFO & CREDITS

WORKING TITLE The Amnesiac
FORMAT Feature length documentary
PROJECT PHASE In development (estimated release 2027)

DIRECTED BY Marcus Lindeen
CINEMATOGRAPHY Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
PRODUCTION DESIGN Simone Grau
MUSIC Hans Appelqvist
EDITING Alexandra Strauss

PRODUCER Jesper Kurlandsky
CO-PRODUCERS Julie Goldman, Christopher Clemens, Philippe Martin
PRODUCTION COMPANY Fasad Production (Sweden)
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES Motto Pictures (New York), Les Films Pelléas (Paris)