Thu 4/3 @ 7:25PM
Fri 4/4 @ 12:15PM
We don’t even try to keep up with the Cleveland International Film Festival — it’s too big and sprawling, and you film buffs know who you are. But we did want to mention one of their many partners, our friends over at the Cleveland Print Room, who are sponsoring two screenings of the 2014 film A Photographic Memory, directed by Rachel Seed, at the Upper Allen Theatre.
It’s an interesting echo of a film shown last week at the Rock Hall made by a woman reviving her father’s reputation as the inventor of a groundbreaking synthesizer called the Resynator. Alison Tavel, who dug up the story of her father Don Tavel, who died in a car crash when she was a baby; Rachel Elizabeth Seed, only 18 months old, when her mother, journalist Sheila Turner-Seed, died of cerebral hemorrhage, also made a film to reconnect with the mother she never really knew, while shining light on the work she did, despite her early death at age 42 in 1979.
Among Turner-Seed’s work was 50 hours of recorded interviews with some of the most influential photographers in history, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cornell Capa, Gordon. Parks, Lisette Model and W. Eugene Smith. Rachel seed attempted to visit some of the photographers her mother interviews decades earlier. Moved to uncover more of what she left behind, Rachel sets out to revisit her mom’s subjects, family, and friends, revisiting the photographers she interviewed decades before. The film received a four “challah” rating from The Jewish Voice and Opinion.
Go here for tickets.