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 ...

“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 ...

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.

Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed was just 18 months-old when her mother, renowned avant-garde journalist Shelia Turner Seed, unexpectedly passed away. Driven by a desire to understand who her mother ...

Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS and a New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate, genre-bending portrait of filmmaker Rachel ...

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber have acquired North American rights to the award-winning documentary A Photographic Memory, the directorial debut of Rachel Elizabeth Seed.

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 ...