The accomplished mother that photographer-writer Rachel Elizabeth Seed never knew is the star of her deeply affecting “A Photographic Memory,” one of last year’s best documentaries, finally making its ...

A daughter hunts for the mother she never knew in an extraordinary, elegiac documentary. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an ...

Using a myriad of archival materials and inventive narrative devices, Rachel Elizabeth Seed searches for her mother, journalist and photographer Sheila Turner Seed, of whom she has no recollections.

“So many cameras.” Unusual in the pre-digital age, before rampant cellphone camera chronicles of everyone’s lives changed our visual landscape forever. This is what photographer and filmmaker Rachel ...

The accomplished mother that photographer-writer Rachel Elizabeth Seed never knew is the star of her deeply affecting “A Photographic Memory,” one of last year’s best documentaries, finally making its ...