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Suzanne Heintz had just moved to Denver from her home town of Yonkers for an art director position with STARZ Entertainment when she found herself arguing with her mom, again, about marriage ...
Nov 10, 2019 · Imitating Life - The Audacity of Suzanne Heintz: Directed by Karen Whitehead. Satirical artist and art director, Suzanne Heintz, adopted her fake family more than 15 years ago to challenge persisting stereotypes about women's lives.
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- Documentary
- Karen Whitehead
- 2019-11-10
A family relation, a generation apart, is “once removed.” So is our relationship with our path in Life. It’s passed on by the previous generation, once removed from our own. Why do we cling to past tradition as the measure of success in the present? This is a weird time in Women’s History.
Wielding the camera as a weapon against conformity and suffocating gender roles, Heintz used her outrageous self-portraits with metaphorical husband Chauncey, and daughter, Mary Margaret, to explode the myth of the idyllic all-American family.
As social media catapults interest in her mannequin-aided portraits of womanhood and perfect family bliss, Heintz’s resilience is put to the test by real life challenges in her fight to harness her viral influence and produce more ‘art for good’.
SUZANNE HEINTZ. We need stories about strong, confident women doing groundbreaking work in the mainframe, where they can inspire others and encourage women to own their voice. KATHERINE WILKINS DE FRANCIS & KAREN WHITEHEAD, FILMMAKERS
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