IMITATING LIFE: THE AUDACITY OF SUZANNE HEINTZ

67 min

WORLD PREMIERE When she didn’t find the perfect man with whom to build the perfect life, photographer Suzanne Heintz created her own—with mannequins. Wielding the camera as a weapon against conformity and suffocating gender roles, Heinz uses her outrageous self-portraits with plastic husband Chauncey and daughter Mary Margaret to explode the myth of the idyllic all-American family. Raw and cheeky, Imitating Life takes us into the irreverent, satirical and very funny mind of a unique and subversive artist.

Director: Karen Whitehead

Executive Producer: Katherine De Francis

Producer: Katherine De Francis, Karen Whitehead

Writer: Katherine De Francis, Karen Whitehead, Pippa McBride

Cinematographer: Pierre Kattar, Evan Fairbanks, Steve Reynolds, Jim Goldsworthy

Editor: Pippa McBride

Music: C. Hoyser, T. Gross

Language: English

Country: USA

Year: 2019

Activism

Arts

Photography

Women and Girls

IMITATING LIFE: THE AUDACITY OF SUZANNE HEINTZ

LIKE THE BACK OF HER HAND

2019

Directed by Sarah Friedland