Jonathan Caouette began making films at the age of 11. His first feature film Tarnation, produced in 2003 by John Cameron Mitchell and Gus Van Sant, was critically acclaimed and screened at numerous international festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. In 2009, Caouette directed the documentary All Tomorrow's Parties about the English festival of the same name, followed by Walk away Renée in 2011, a sequel to Tarnation.
A groundbreaking development in autobiographical documentary, Jonathan Caouette's cathartic film diary swirls together Super 8 and VHS home movies, answering machine messages, family photographs, and other records of a lifetime. It tells the story of Caouette's tumultuous childhood, his coming out as gay, and his complex relationship with his schizophrenic mother, a former beauty queen whose li...
A groundbreaking development in autobiographical documentary, Jonathan Caouette's cathartic film diary swirls together Super 8 and VHS home movies, answering machine messages, family photographs, and other records of a lifetime. It tells the story of Caouette's tumultuous childhood, his coming out as gay, and his complex relationship with his schizophrenic mother, a former beauty queen whose li...