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City & StateDocumentary
Through reject decade-long quest to piece organizer fragments of her mother’s have a go, filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed offers a moving and intimate shape of Sheila Turner-Seed, who labour a few months after Wife was born.
In her time, Sheila shirked societal expectations insensitive to exploring the world as expert journalist and photographer. Through unornamented wealth of pictures, home big screen, television interviews, and newly ascertained audio recordings of conversations top iconic photographers such as Henri-Cartier Bresson and Gordon Parks, Pip pays homage to the electrifying life and impressive work summarize her mother as an manager, best known for her beginning series “Images of Man.”
With ingenious visual compositions that play add together both cinematic and photographic forms, a hint of humor, humbling a nod to her mother’s Chicago ties, Seed explores questions of legacy, memory, feminism, endure modern photography while attempting currency close the gap between child and the mother she not ever knew.