Photographer Sally Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family...

Director Steven Cantor examines the life and work of photographer Sally Mann in a follow-up documentary to his earlier "Blood Ties", also included on this disc. What remains: Depicts Mann's latest work, a photo series revolving around various aspects of death and decay. As with her earlier series, this new effort features imagery taken directly from Mann's own life, mixing the traditional boundaries between art and photojournalism- amplified by the...