Masters Edition: In Conversation with Lynne Sachs (Part 2)

We continue the conversation with the highly acclaimed feminist, experimental filmmaker, and poet, Lynne Sachs about her latest feature-length documentary film, FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO.FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO is perhaps one of Lynne’s most personal works and the longest of her collaborations. Filmed over a period of 35 years, Lynne Sachs collected interviews with her father, her siblings, and other family members in an attempt to understand the web that connects a child to their parent and a sister to their siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs’ 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. In the process, Sachs allows herself and her audience inside to see beyond the surface of the skin, the projected reality. As the startling facts mount, Sachs as a daughter discovers more about her father than she had ever hoped to reveal.Film critics and programmers have described FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO as “a divine masterwork of vulnerability that weaves past and present together with ease.”    I definitely consider this film essential viewing for filmmakers who lean towards the personal. FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO had its world premiere at Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It then went on the screen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of Documentary Fortnight and will be having its international premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest in Autumn. Lynne also briefly speaks about her writing process, and her book, Year by Year Poems. For show notes, visit docsinorbit.com and be sure to follow us on social media @docsinorbit