"I Became Obsessed with the Idea that All Great Art Contains the Life Force of the Artist...": Director Rachel Elizabeth Seed on A Photographic Memory

Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed's photographer mother Sheila Turner Seed died when she was just 18 months old, before specific memories could take hold -- an absence that structures doc producer-turned-director Seed's True/False, Hot Docs and DOC NYC-playing A Photographic Memory, which I caught at the Woodstock Film Festival. From the outset, the documentary is an archive-based biographical detective movie of sorts, following Seed over the years in which she learns about her mother by reconstru...