A Photographic Memory
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Film Details
| Country | United States | |
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| Year | 2024 | |
| Running Time | 85 MIN | |
| Language | English | |
| Director | Rachel Elizabeth Seed | |
| Themes | Arts and Culture, Women - Front and Center |
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Description
“Eerily soul-stirring […] One of the best docs I've seen this year.”
(Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com)
Can you get to know someone through the things they leave behind? In this intimate documentary, Rachel Elizabeth Seed attempts to piece together a portrait of her mother, renowned avant-garde journalist Sheila Turner Seed who died suddenly when Rachel was a baby. Winner of the Independent Spirit ‘Truer Than Fiction’ Award, this stunning film explores memory, legacy and stories left untold through Sheila’s vast archive of photographs and interviews with iconic photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Cecil Beaton, Bruce Davidson, Lisette Model and others.
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| Reviews | "Beyond the wealth of resources at her disposal, it’s the consistently meta and thematically relevant formal ingenuity Seed shrewdly deploys that make her debut a sumptuous piece of nonfiction." - Variety "A daughter hunts for the mother she never knew in an extraordinary, elegiac documentary. "- The New York Times "A haunting and poetic film about the ties that bind." - Cool People Have Feelings, Too |
| Awards And Festivals | DOC NYC 2024 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2024 |
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