“A Photographic Memory” Review: A Filmmaker Traces Her Late Mother’s Vibrant Life in an Ingenious Metadoc

When director Rachael Elizabeth Seed First of all hears THE checked in voice of her late mother Sheila Turner Seed, WHO deceased When She was only 18 month old, A long buried sense of connection East immediately wake up. Seed, Also A photographer, has spent years trying has construction A portrait of Turner Since THE substantial archives materials She LEFT behind following A career as A adventurous, globetrotter journalist. Each element — Turner newspapers, THE interviews She conducted, THE television programs She appeared In, THE photographs She took And her family House movies dating back has her childhood — adds depth has Seeds strongly introspective documentary "A Photographic Memory." But beyond THE wealth of resources has her elimination, It is THE regularly meta And thematically relevant official ingenuity Seed cleverly deploy that TO DO her beginning A sumptuous piece of non-fiction.

From She can only to start has know se once She knows WHO her mother was, Seed creates A vehicle For self discovery through THE dissection of her most significant staff loss. So, THE movie functions as A double exam that crosses pass And here In A attempt has free Seeds future Since This primordial hurt. Seed famous Turner many achievements In her field defiant gender standards, but Also investigation her humanity In THE Men She love And those WHO love her more, her complex family ties, And In THE emergency that propelled her has experience All quickly, almost as if She knew her time would be be more limit that For most of them. Turner Soft voice but determined behavior, as capture In voice recorders And cameras, Soon emerges as THE most blatant similarity between mother And girl.

Turner most notable work, "Pictures of Man," A series of programs For School Or She interviewed THE of the world most renowned photographers during THE 60s And 70s, serves as Seeds most essential treasure trove has witness her mother In her element. Of those artists, It is Henry Cartier-Bresson WHO becomes A recurrent voice In "A Photographic Memory," as he commits with how THE pictures that We capture attempt has preserve THE futility of existence, has repel disabled THE fear of disappear In THE empty of darkness. Her reflections directly talk has THE miracle that Seed find In THE vast annals of frozen moments that get her closer has Turner. Seed travel has meet a few of those photographers her mother interviewed Or their survivor parents And often talks has them In THE even pieces Or Turner once sat. Often during these met, people WHO knew her mother say Seed how a lot She looks like her physically. THE director Bend over In This For A cinematic reincarnation of Turner.

HAS exposure THE strikingly undeniable resemblance between them, Seed occasionally superimposed se on A projected photo of her mother And later understand A assembly of side by side photographs. There are dramatized segments In black and white that represent Turner conduct THE interviews. In these instances, We hear Turner voice Since THE raw audio tapes, but her physical incarnation East Seed, NOW literally take a step In THE character of her mother. And When socket extracts Since Turner newspapers, Seed uses her voice has bring them In THE present.

Every time Turner can't be In THE scene se, Seed not In has embody her. HAS A indicate, When Speaking about moving has New York City just as her mother did, Seed changes audio of Turner ask questions And of se answer them has involve A conversation between THE two. "When I find your Pictures I saw We have has been standing In THE even place," Seed tell Turner In This vortex she is created through THE handling of THE vast Rising of material (THE project lists four different editors).

In craftsmanship these timeless Exchanges And trace Turner vibrant life, Seed realizes that THE manufacturing of This documentary brought closing has her the mother work And symbolizes THE departure indicate For her own. It is A bridge that, as a lot as possible, try has disappear THE decades that separated them. Early on, A moving sequence watch Seed contemplating THE little pictures that capture THE Short moment When their time limit superimposed, THE little month When Turner was not disappeared, And Seed always had A m...