The Martha Mitchell Effect

CEH 2023 Nominee: The Martha Mitchell Effect

She was once as famous as Jackie O. And then she tried to take down a President. The Martha Mitchell Effect is an archival documentary portrait of the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: Martha Mitchell, a Republican cabinet wife who was gaslighted by the Nixon Administration to keep her quiet. It offers a female gaze on Watergate […]

A Photographic Memory

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Thirty years after her mother’s death, photographer Rachel Elizabeth Seed discovers her mother’s work — more than 50 hours of interviews with the greatest photographers of the 20th Century, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Cornell Capa, Cecil Beaton, and Bruce Davidson. When Rachel threads in the audio reels and presses play, she hears […]