"Tarnation is a remarkable film, immediate, urgent, angry, poetic and stubbornly hopeful."-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Filmmaker and actor Jonathan Caouette has shown that under the most trying of circumstances, through image and word, the artist can overcome limitations and become successful-even acclaimed as an artistic genius. His film Tarnation tells his story of growing up in Houston as the son of a schizophrenic mother, raised for the most part with grandparents who are rather limited in dealing with life as it is. First left in foster homes and abused, Caouette, a witness to his mother's rape and eventually diagnosed with his own personality disorder, documented his life in Tarnation to early adulthood in New York City using old video, photographs, clippings, and other bits and pieces from childhood.
Now Caouette turns to the printed page to tell his life story. Tarnation was voted number twenty in Film Comment's Top 50 Best Films of 2004. It won Caouette the Best New Filmmaker Award from the Boston Society of Film Critics; it also went on to win the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Nonfiction Film and the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival. Tarnation was shown in the Venice Film Festival, Gijn International Film Festival, and the Toronto Film Festival, among others. At the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, the film and its director received a standing ovation.
Jonathan Caouette, filmmaker, actor, and author, is at work on a new feature film, Everything . . . Somewhere Else. As an actor, he has a lead role in the film The Moon and He (to be released). He is also in post-production of All Tomorrow's Parties, a documentary of a UK music festival featuring Patti Smith, Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, the Shins, and the Beastie Boys. He relocated to New York in his twenties and subsequently attained peace in the form of a supportive mate, David Sanin Paz. He and his mother, Renee, live in Queens, New York.
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