“At the center of Sachs’s work is often Sachs herself: her body, her voice, her words. And with those come the subjects that preoccupy her: family, feminism, language, place, and being.” – Kat Sachs
“Film About a Father Who” Review by Gay City News
“In documentary work, it’s not just about seeing someone,” she says, “it’s how they see that can tell you just as much about them.”
“Lynne Sachs shows her effort results in a powerful, haunting film.”
“‘Film About a Father Who’ makes for an essential, powerful work of documentary to open 2021.” – Glenn Dunks
“…I kept working on what everyone called my “dad film,” but I didn’t really know where it was going. I just knew I was trying to make this film as a way to understand another person.” – Sachs
“Sachs’s films invite us into her personal life as well as the life of others.” in MoMI Retrospective
“Film About a Father Who shows offer her strengths admirably and is a heck of a good way to begin 2021.” – George Robinson
Lynne Sachs goes for an abstract, experimental tone in Father, essentially creating a fractured collage of, shall we say, life with father.
“As the centerpiece of Museum of the Moving Image’s current retrospective, “Lynne Sachs: Between Thought and Expression,” Film About a Father Who represents the culmination of years of her experimentation and exploration in the DIY film underground.”
