“Family Affairs” at Other Cinema – Programmed by Craig Baldwin – Benefit Show for Humanity Now
Lynne Sachs brings us Film About A Father Who, a feature length archeological DIG into her own internal movie archive.
Lynne Sachs brings us Film About A Father Who, a feature length archeological DIG into her own internal movie archive.
The Menil Collection and Aurora Picture Show copresent an outdoor screening of short films organized in conjunction with the Menil’s exhibition Collection Close-Up: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs.
Our annual series features an international array of recent and historical documentaries and nonfiction films.
The online portal DAFilms.com is the main project of the Doc Alliance festival network formed by 7 key European documentary film festivals.
“Three additional films by Lynne Sachs—The Washing Society (2018, made with Lizzie Olesker), And Then We Marched (2017) and E•pis•to•lar•y: Letter to Jean Vigo (2021)—screen at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive on Wednesday, April 6.”
Fandor to showcase independent films featuring women filmmakers and stars and will focus on the Indie Spirit Awards and filmmaker Lynne Sachs.
or Berkeley’s venerable Pacific Film Archive (or “PFA” for short), it’s a season for re-starting programs interrupted by COVID outbreaks or encouraging viewers to have the curiosity to try filmmakers different from the same-old same-old predicted by Netflix algorithmic recommendations.
This program of four short and medium-length pieces highlights Sachs’ filmography from a poetic, personal perspective, as she uses her camera to capture the essence of people, places, and moments in time.
“A workshop in which we will explore the ways in which images of our mother, father, sister, brother, cousin, grandfather, aunt or uncle can become material for the making of a personal film.”
In this episode, she discusses the field of experimental documentary in general as well as her ways into the field.