Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project

The camera turns on a lauded, controversial photographer in the sensational documentary "Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project" (2006). The film follows three years of Gearon's life as she preps her most daring and exploitative project to date, a series on her manic-depressive schizophrenic mother who exists in modern-day Grey Gardens squalor. Not one to shy from controversy, Gearon's latest work mirrors her former projects with its exploration of family dynamics that borders on perverse. Its subversive beauty continues the great debate about the nature of art as it pushes the line between visual aesthetics and privacy.