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.”
A selection of poll ballots from filmmakers, including Megan Griffiths, Lloyd Kaufman and Sandi Tan, choosing their best of 2021.
“Lynne Sachs’ short uses the simple image of her daughter Maya running in front of the camera to offer kinetic snapshots of how our children change physically and emotionally over the years.”
With the help of an unprecedented collaborative effort by eight of the most noteworthy, independent film distribution companies in the U.S., Docuseek, LLC launched an innovative, new, subscription video-on-demand service, OVID.tv.
