Tarnation

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Awards

BSFC 2004 - Won - Best New Filmmaker

Chlotrudis 2005 - Won - Best Documentary

Chlotrudis Awards 2005 - Nominated - Best Director

Gijon International Film Festival 2004 - Nominated - Best Feature

BSFC 2004 - Won - Best New Filmmaker

Chlotrudis 2005 - Won - Best Documentary

Chlotrudis Awards 2005 - Nominated - Best Director

Gijon International Film Festival 2004 - Nominated - Best Feature

GLADD Media Awards 2005 - Nominated - Outstanding Documentary

Glitter Awards 2005 -Won - Best Documentary

Gotham Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Documentary

Independent Spirit Awards 2005 - Nominated - Best Documentary

LA IFP/West Film Festival 2004 - Won - Best Documentary

London Film Festival 2004 - Won - Sutherland Trophy

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2005 - Won - Best Non-Fiction Film

SDFCS 2004 - Won - Best Documentary Film

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Tarnation

Director:
Jonathan Caouette
88 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

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.

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"Not only is this a truly groundbreaking movie that will be discussed for years to come but it is also an incredibly moving and inpsiring story of a boy's love for his mother."

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Details

Runtime:
88 min.

Genres:
Documentary
LGBT

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Tagline

• Your greatest creation is the life you lead

 

 

Cast & Crew

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Directed by
Jonathan Caouette

Writing credits
Jonathan Caouette

Cast

Renee Leblanc
Jonathan Caouette
Adolph Davis
Rosemary Davis
David Sanin Paz

 

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