Amazon's personal assistant device, the Echo (also known as Alexa), may soon be getting a very interesting upgrade — one that allows it to tell you stories from your life based on photos you show it.

The idea of a "photographic memory" has been intriguing to us non-robots since photography was invented, probably. But does it really exist? And if your memory is, shall we say, not so photographic, ...

Filmmaker and photographer Rachel Elizabeth Seed doesn’t have any memories of her mother, the renowned journalist Sheila Turner Seed, who died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 42 when Rachel was ...

Renowned journalist Sheila Turner Seed died of a brain hemorrhage when her daughter Rachel was a toddler. Almost 50 years later, Rachel tries to reframe her understanding of who Sheila was. Filmmaker ...

Ross McElwee continues his Socratic mandate of living a fully examined life with the assured and insightful "Photographic Memory," in which the inevitable sojourn into his past once again helps him ...

“So many cameras.” Unusual in the pre-digital age, before rampant cellphone camera chronicles of everyone’s lives changed our visual landscape forever. This is what photographer and filmmaker Rachel ...

Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed was just 18 months-old when her mother, renowned avant-garde journalist Shelia Turner Seed, unexpectedly passed away. Driven by a desire to understand who her mother ...

Many people boast that they have a "photographic memory." Some people do seem to have had astounding memories. For example, Arturo Toscanini conducted operas from memory after his eyesight became too ...

Self-reflexive filmmaker Ross McElwee examines his past and his troubled relationship with his son in this typically personal documentary. By THR Staff Photographic Memory - Venice Film Festival - H ...

I'm sure this is normal in some people but I have this weird kind of memory where I can remember the dates that certain things happened on. Hell, I'll remember the day I got my dog Sparky when I was 8 ...