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Louisville, KY 40208
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Hours: Wednesday- Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday Noon-5pm
Manuel Alvarez Bravo – Photographs from the Speed Collection
Dates: August 28 – January 4, 2025
Events: TBD
Manuel Alverez Bravo was the leading photographer working in Mexico during the twentieth century. His early works reveal the influence of Modernism, but he quickly developed a distinctive vision deeply rooted in his native Mexican culture and identity. Like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Bravo flourished during the artistic and cultural renaissance that emerged following the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1921. Whether documenting the urban landscapes of Mexico City or capturing imagery evoking indigenous tradition, his photographs capture a timelessness infused with overtones of mysticism, metaphor and poetry.
A Photographic Memory
Directed by Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Screening Dates: September 12, 6pm & September 13, 3pm ($12|$8 Speed and Women in Film KY members)
Q/A with Director Rachel Elizabeth Seed
“This poetic gem is a journey from the weight of absence to the serenity of presence.”—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
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 the filmmaker’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed – a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker, who died suddenly and tragically when Rachel was just 18 months old.
Uncovering the vast archive Turner Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Cecil Beaton, Lisette Model, and Gordon Parks, and others, Rachel attempts to build a posthumous relationship with her mother through her interviews, photographs, journals, films, and the stories of those who remember her.
The result is an unlikely mother-daughter conversation that evades time and space, exploring universal themes of memory, loss, and legacy. 2024, U.S., DCP, 85 minutes. Recommended for 16+.