Collected posters from the “Experimental Lecture” series presented by NYU’s Film and Television and Cinema Studies departments. Curated by Lynne Sachs with Jonathan Kahana & Dan Streible.
When filmmaker Lynne Sachs turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for every year of her life, so far. Each of the fifty poems investigates the relationship between a singular event in Sachs’ life and the swirl of events beyond her domestic universe.
Sachs presents multiple perspectives by liberally jumping backwards and forwards in time, capturing Ira at different ages and points in his life. In doing so, the film doesn’t draw attention to how he changes so much as what stays the same…
Lynne Sachs talks process and inspiration with Rob McLennan.
…But the documentary seems to argue that due to the complexity of familial bonds, only those caught inside should get to define them.
“She, in telling her own stories of milestones both political and personal perfectly captures the way that all of our lives interweave with larger events.”
Sachs, referencing the title of Yvonne Rainer’s landmark feminist feature Film About a Woman Who (1974), practices what Rainer was preaching—and in turn has constructed one of the most powerfully pertinent documentaries of recent years.
New York poets Valery Oisteanu and Lynne Sachs make distillations, sometimes with words, sometimes with images.
Lynne Sachs discusses her new movie “Film About a Father Who” and her 2006 film “States of UnBelonging” with Ynet.
Knowing that Lynne has been working on this film for 26 years, it’s easy to wonder why she doesn’t come to a more definitive conclusion about who her father is or what family means for her and her siblings.
