Tarnation (2003)
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In the making since the director was 11-years-old and completed on a reported budget of about 200 dollars, Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation is an experimental and self-reflective mix of documentary and fiction. Bringing together a collection of home movies, family photos, answering machine messages, reenactments and Caouette's video diary, the film attempts to delve into the filmmaker's experiences growing up queer with a schizophrenic mother and dealing with her 2003 lithium overdose, which rendered her even more mentally unstable than before. After premiering at the 2003 New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Tarnation screened as part of the Frontier program at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jonathan Caouette, Renee LeBlanc, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jonathan Caouette
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Tarnation
In the making since the director was 11-years-old and completed on a reported budget of about 200 dollars, Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation is an experimental and self-reflective mix of documentary and fiction. Bringing together a collection of home movies, family photos, answering machine messages, reenactments and Caouette's video diary, the film attempts to delve into the filmmaker's experiences growing up queer with a schizophrenic mother and dealing with her 2003 lithium overdose, which rendered her even more mentally unstable than before. After premiering at the 2003 New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Tarnation screened as part of the Frontier program at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 85 mins
Complete Cast of Tarnation
- Jonathan Caouette
- Rosemary Davis - Rosemary
- David Sanin Paz - David
- Renee LeBlanc - Renee
- Adolph Davis - Adolph
- Director(s):
- Jonathan Caouette
- Writer(s):
- Jonathan Caouette
- Producer(s):
- Stephen Winter
- Categories:
- Documentary, Independent Films
- 2004 - Boston Society of Film Critics - Best New Filmmaker
- 2004 - National Society of Film Critics - Best Documentary
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