Tierney Gearon [videorecording] : the mother project / Jordanville Films, Inc. presents ; Zeitgeist Video production ; a film by Jack Youngelson and Peter Sutherland ; directed, shot and produced by Peter Sutherland and Jack Youngelson ; co-producer, Trish South.
Originally released as a documentary film in 2006. Special features: over 20 minutes of deleted scenes, including footage from The Mother Project's New York gallery opening; home movies and Super-8 footage; selected Tierney Gearon photos from the Mother Project; statements from Tierney Gearon and the filmmakers; trailer.
Summary:
"Celebrated photographer Tierney Gearon's work has been labeled manipulative, disturbing and even perverse ... Filmmakers Peter Sutherland (Pedal) and Jack Youngelson (Producer, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib) follow this exceptional artist over the course of three years as she assembles her most daring and emotionally complex body of work to date: a series on her manic-depressive schizophrenic mother, who resides in Grey Gardens squalor in the frozen farm country of upstate New York. The mixture of art and family can almost be too close for comfort, but like Gearon's photographs there is a subversive beauty that emerges from the incongruity between ordinary moments and madness ... a moving and intricate portrait of an artist, her inspirations and unconventional family relationships"--Container.
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