Tarnation (2003)

Recommended

USA

Feature Documentary

Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Jonathan Caouette

Composers: John Califra, Max Avery Lichtenstein

Featuring: Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc, Rosemary Davis, Adolph Davis

Jonathan Caouette's film presents a dazzling, visceral, and painfully honest piece of self-portraiture (albeit, one told in the third person), which chronicles his life – through a wealth of archive, self-shot footage – from his troubled beginnings in Houston to his escape to New York, detailing his mother’s mental health problems, his abuse in foster homes, his uneasy relationship with his maternal grandparents, and his own emotional troubles. Iain.Stott