12.27.07
Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project
Ok, maybe I’m on some totally misogynistic kick because like, my estrogen levels are depleted or something crazy, but once again, I hated this totally woman-centric ‘documentary’: Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project. So, the movie was actually made by a couple of dudes (if I’m remembering right, because IMDb sure doesn’t know) but it’s about this woman/model/photographer, Tierney Gearon, who goes to visit her schizophrenic mother in upstate New York to take pictures of her. Through the course of filming, she also gets pregnant, moves from London to L.A. and does her very best to completely fuck up her kids. Seriously, I hate hate hate this woman.
As I’ve previously stated, I’m not a huge proponent of ‘professional photography’ as a *thing* to be *studied* and *lauded.* This woman is no Diane Arbus, I can tell you that much. Her photos are good, I guess, but I could not move past the fact that she has these 2 kids, she takes totally weird pictures of them and drags them around with her and is a really shitty mom! Like, there’s this one part where she doesn’t want her son to witness the set up of a photo where her mother is going to pretend to breastfeed her newborn (good instinct, Tierney!) but he just keeps coming on in anyway, and finally she’s like “Ok, whatever!”
Also, when she finds out she’s pregnant (we never meet the dude she’s fucking) she’s like “I really think this baby is going to complete our family. I can feel it.” Oh barf.
This woman is the epitome of self-indulgence and self-interest and it’s just horrible to watch. Really horrible. Please don’t watch it.