“At once personal and public, by the nature of its release into the world of strangers, the film is a fascinating meditation on family, masculinity, and on the filmmaker’s constant negotiation with privacy and expression.” – BEDATRI D. CHOUDHURY
On Thursday, October 28th from 3 p.m., she will talk about her work, show film clips and then be available for a Q&A.
This in-person workshop in Cork will focus on the interplay between poetry and cinema.
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.
Founded in 1974, the AIFVF has been presenting the best in international film for 46 years.
” 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
