Congregation Beth Elohim Brooklyn, NY

Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project
Directed by Peter Sutherland and Jack Youngelson

Photographer Tierney Gearon came to notorious fame in 2001 when photos of her own naked and masked children in the I Am a Camera show at London’s Saatchi Gallery had authorities threatening child pornography charges. Filmmakers Peter Sutherland and Jack Youngelson (who will attend the

screening at CBE) 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 suburbs of upstate New York.

Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project is a moving and intricate portrait of an artist and her inspirations. The San Francisco Chronicle called it “one of the most remarkable and layered explorations of family relationships, insanity and the motivations of memoristic artists ever to have been made.” The film premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and has been shown at film festivals around the world including Full Frame, San Francisco, the inaugural Cinema Rome Film Fest, Vancouver, Sao Paolo and Thessaloniki.

The documentary appears courtesy of Zeitgeist Films, available for purchase at www.zeitgeistfilms.com.