On the occasion of her latest feature, Film About a Father Who, the Museum is pleased to present a career-ranging survey of Sachs’s work.
The film will be released as a part of a 20-film retrospective of Sachs’ work.
“Ellipsis is like the fissure between one thing and the other, where you bring knowledge.”
“Film About a Father Who” is streaming with the SF Jewish Film Festival December 10-17.
“The remarkable Lynne Sachs continues her rewarding adventures in personal, poetic documentary with ‘Film About a Father Who.'”
From intimate meditations on nature’s healing and drug-induced becoming, to radical deconstructions of cinema, language and architecture, this programme showcases film’s potential to both abstract and interpret a chaotic world.
Three video-poem collaborations by Lynne Sachs with Bernadette Mayer, Paolo Javier, and Laura Harrison.
The film is set to open at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image on January 15, 2021, alongside a retrospective of Sachs’ work. It will also be available in virtual cinemas across the country.
A discussion between Adam Schartoff and Lynne Sachs.
The film opened the 2020 festival with an outdoor screening at Memphis’ Shelby Farms.
