Caren McCourtney

Caren w still camera

Caren began her film memoir in the late 1970s when she came upon a Super 8 camera in a pawnshop soon after she chose to cede custody rather let her young daughter’s life be torn apart in a vicious legal battle. Caren retained visitation rights and used the camera to film visits with her daughter and other events in her life. She also loaned the camera to friends to film the Seneca Falls Women’s Peace Encampment. After filming her daughter’s college graduation and completing the home she and her partner shared until her death, she gave the camera away.

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