Renowned journalist Sheila Turner Seed died of a brain hemorrhage when her daughter Rachel was a toddler. Almost 50 years later, Rachel tries to reframe her understanding of who Sheila was. Filmmaker ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ross McElwee is a poet of memory and, on a larger scale, history: his classic documentary Sherman’s March (1986) began as a chronicle of the Union general’s devastating campaign through the ...

The topic of having a photographic memory is debatable. Some people believe it is possible, while others see it as nothing more than a hoax. One thing everyone can agree on is that the ability to ...

Filmmaker and photographer Rachel Elizabeth Seed doesn’t have any memories of her mother, the renowned journalist Sheila Turner Seed, who died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 42 when Rachel was ...