Film About a Father Who
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1h 13m
Directed by Lynne Sachs | 74 mins | 2020
One man, Ira Sachs Sr., refracted through a host of familial voices and a variety of film formats, the technology evolving over the course of 25 years of shooting. As one of the numerous children he sired with different women—with not all of his progeny known to each other—the experimental documentarian and poet Lynne Sachs attempts to bring this gregarious but secretive pater familias into focus.
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