In 2021, Mimesis held its first-ever hybrid (in-person + virtual) Documentary Festival, hosted in August by the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado with major support from the Stewart Family Foundation.
“In the series, two filmmakers, Lynne Sachs and Mercedes Gaviria study their relationships with their respective fathers, both men with powerful and absorbing personalities.”
“Film About a Father Who feels like a culmination of a career of family-focused work.”
A selection of poll ballots from filmmakers, including Megan Griffiths, Lloyd Kaufman and Sandi Tan, choosing their best of 2021.
“Lynne Sachs’ short uses the simple image of her daughter Maya running in front of the camera to offer kinetic snapshots of how our children change physically and emotionally over the years.”
With the help of an unprecedented collaborative effort by eight of the most noteworthy, independent film distribution companies in the U.S., Docuseek, LLC launched an innovative, new, subscription video-on-demand service, OVID.tv.
Sachs’ Films Selected by MEHDI JAHAN & LIBERTAD GILLS
“There is a certain tension between the statements “any revolution is possible” and “no revolution is possible”, which seem to be the most obvious difference between the two translations of one of the texts of Marguerite Duras…”
The Screen’s Margins Podcast12/23/2021Oll Obout Ovid! No. 21 – All the World’s Memory, Lost Course, the works of Lynne Sachs, and more! FULL EPISODE AVAILABLE HERE: https://anchor.fm/screensmargins/episodes/Oll-Obout-Ovid–No–21—All-the-Worlds-Memory–Lost-Course–the-works-of-Lynne-Sachs–and-more-e1c12ib/a-a74q63m Welcome to the 99th and final podcast from THE SCREEN’S MARGINS of the year! What a year it’s been, and what better way to round out 2021 than […]
These artists, in concert, express resistance and exuberance in equal measure, each using unique dimensions of cinematic space, ranging from abstract-material to narrative approaches, presenting a collage of phenomenological records of identity and a rebuttal to the term: “Essential Cinema”.
