Photographer Helen Levitt’s iconic 1948 short film In the Street is coupled with artist Lynne Sachs’s Figure and I, a new work inspired by the exhibition The New Woman Behind the Camera.
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” The refuges from reality that he found in Winnie the Pooh and Brazil seem to be what he chased the rest of his life, and what are presented so eloquently in this short film.” – Nick Luciano
In addition to this shorts programme Lynne will also be in attendance at the festival for the Irish premiere of her celebrated feature Film About a Father Who.
This exclusive streaming premiere of “Film About a Father Who” is accompanied by a selection of experimental short films by Sachs, many of which also reflect her probing exploration of family relationships.
“Maya at 24” will screen in the program “Lucid Bodies” online on October 20th.
We chat about ‘Film About a Father Who’, her approach to experimental documentary making and living and working in San Francisco in 80’s
AMERICAN FRINGE / NOVEMBER 12-14, 2021 New films from and of the margins of U.S. cinema.https://www.amfringe.com/ AMERICAN FRINGE RETROSPECTIVE, SEASON 5 https://www.cinematheque.fr/seance/35796.html FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2021, 10:00 P.M.GEORGES FRANJU ROOM10 p.m. → 11:15 p.m. (74 min) Film About a Father WhoLynne sachsUnited States / 2020/74 min / DCP / VOSTF With Ira Sachs Sr., Ira Sachs […]
The Irish premiere of Lynne Sachs’ celebrated feature Film About a Father Who screens here alongside the world premiere of Myrid Carten’s short film Sorrow had a baby. Both artists will be in attendance for a discussion of their work following the screening.
“Authors who have made their way looking inward, achieving a work where the constant regression to aesthetic searches, thematic investigations and particular narratives, have a point at which the gaze gravitates, infects and expands.”
