“Formally experimental for a documentary, the wide range of aesthetics are quite reflexive in Sachs own commentary about the inconsistency of memory, and how the movie image is every bit as deceptive.” – Robert Joseph Butler
” The program Lynne Sachs: Between Thought and Expression collects 30 years of shorts and features from the director, showing off her unusual blending of personal materials with both observational and essayistic film techniques.” – Schindel
Top ten lists from most of the writers and programmers who used to participate in the Voice poll
“Film About A Father Who is Lynne Sachs’ latest, and evidently most personal, feat of documentation.” -Nicholas Yap
Lynne Sachs in conversation with the Belcourt Programming Staff: Allison Inman Mae Moreno, Toby Leonard, and Zack Hall on the occasion of “Film About a Father Who”‘s virtual theatre release.
That’s what veteran filmmaker Lynne Sachs learned with her latest documentary “Film About a Father Who,” which tells the story of her pioneering Utah businessman father, Ira.
“Legacy is at the forefront of study for Sachs, whose career has spanned the last three-and-a-half decades.” – Joel Copling
Lynne Sachs programming noted in DocNYC’s weekly newsletter.
“With thirty-five years of footage shot across varied formats and devices to cull through and piece together, the result becomes less about providing a clear picture of who this man is and more about understanding the cost of his actions.”
“Sachs achieves a poetic resignation about unknowability inside families, and the hidden roots never explained from looking at a family tree.”
