A Photographic Memory

COUNTRY
United States
Year
2024
Running Time
85 minutes
Language
English
Director
Rachel Elizabeth Seed

“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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