“I pretend I am seeing all that is there, but ultimately I always know … nothing is really what it seems. Film About a Father Who is a filmic journey of me as a daughter. The film captures my naïveté transformed into awareness, my rage transformed into forgiveness.” —Lynne Sachs
Between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8mm and 16mm film, videotape, and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs’s cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory, views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately ensconced in secrets. With this meditation on fatherhood and masculinity, Sachs allows herself and her audience to see beneath the surface of the skin, beyond the projected reality. As the startling facts mount, she discovers more about her father than she had ever hoped to reveal. 2020, 8mm, 16mm, VHS, Hi8, MiniDV, Digital/HD, 74 minutes.
Copresented by Minnesota Women in Film and Television
How to View
$12 ($10 Walker members) per household for a three-day rental. Tickets go on sale for this virtual screening beginning at 11 am (CST) on Tuesday, March 2.
After your purchase is complete, you’ll be able to stream the film immediately or view it in the three days following your purchase. Ticket sales will end on Tuesday, March 16 at 11 am (CST).
Accessibility
This program will have closed captioning. For more information about accessibility, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.
To help prepare for the screening or answer any questions that might come up, check out these frequently asked questions about how to access your content and view at home.
About the Director
Lynne Sachs was born in Memphis, Tennessee and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her work ranges from very personal experimental essay films to documentary. Sachs worked closely with San Francisco film artists Craig Baldwin, Bruce Conner, Barbara Hammer, George Kuchar, and Trinh T. Min-ha. Sachs’s films have screened at the New York Film Festival, Sundance, Oberhausen, Viennale, BAMCinemaFest, Vancouver Film Festival, DocLisboa, and at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, and Wexner Center for the Arts. The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Festival International Nuevo Cine in Havana, China Women’s Film Festival and Sheffield Documentary Festival have presented retrospectives of her films. In 2019, Tender Buttons Press published her first collection of poetry, Year by Year Poems.