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Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project

Peter Sutherland, Director

2006 | 70 |

Documentary filmmakers Jack Youngelson and Peter Sutherland present a sympathetic profile of Tierney Gearon, an American model-turned-photographer whose surreal, vividly colored snapshots of family life became the center of a scandal when they were exhibited in London in 2001. Delving into the personal dynamics that partly inspired Gearon's compelling images, Youngelson and Sutherland follow the photographer at work as she interacts with her children and her manic-depressive, schizophrenic mother, who figure prominently in her work.