“This series aims to invoke the spirit of the early City Symphonies and apply it to the New York of the late 20th century and the early part of this century.”
Honouring the work of Barbara Hammer as seminal to generations of artists, this session celebrates erotic freedom in communion with nature through the hands of multiple filmmakers.
The film will screen on February 26th and 27th at La Casa Encendida.
Other titles in OVID’s February slate include Shirley Clarke’s Beat classic THE CONNECTION, the delightful Hong Kong genre farce VAMPIRE CLEANUP DEPARTMENT, Ilan Ziv’s eye-opening EXILE, A MYTH UNEARTHED, and five more indelible short films by OVID favorite Lynne Sachs.
An in-depth discussion between film makers David Cox and Lynne Sachs on subjects ranging from logocentrism to detritus and fragments and the world the structuralist legacy left us.
Lynne Sachs talks about her films, which are being showcased on Ovid.tv.
“Sachs, in fact, builds her own cinematic grammar to help construct an understanding of her father…”
In 2021, Mimesis held its first-ever hybrid (in-person + virtual) Documentary Festival, hosted in August by the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado with major support from the Stewart Family Foundation.
“In the series, two filmmakers, Lynne Sachs and Mercedes Gaviria study their relationships with their respective fathers, both men with powerful and absorbing personalities.”
“Film About a Father Who feels like a culmination of a career of family-focused work.”
