What It’s About
Rachel Seed has no memory of her mother, photographer Sheila Seed, who died when Rachel was eighteen months. She grew up aware of Sheila’s legacy without really understanding who she was. To take that extra step was too painful, but now Rachel feels ready. Her voyage of discovery involves excavating her mother’s life, studying her photographs, reading from her journals and hearing her voice on “Images of Man”, a series of audio interviews Sheila conducted with preeminent photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson. Gradually, Rachel forms an unexpected bond with the mother she never knew.
Why We Love It
This highly personal, deeply felt film delivers a fascinating profile of Sheila Turner Seed’s groundbreaking work in the sixties and seventies, competing in a male-dominated field. But on a deeper, more profound level, it’s also a tender portrait of a grown daughter searching for the mother who left her much too soon. We feel Rachel’s sense of abandonment as she opens herself up to a more thorough, nuanced understanding of Sheila, followed by bittersweet emotion as she realizes how much of her mother lives on in her. Don’t let this captivating film escape your memory.