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2024 marks 40 years since experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs took her first video class at Dctv, and in celebration, Dctv’s Firehouse Cinema in NYC will be presenting an extensive retrospective. Taking place June 7-11, the series features 24 of her films plus a sound-collage world premiere associated with her latest film, Contractions, which was a selection at True/False, Prismatic Ground, and DC/Dox 2024). The upcoming New York Times Op-Docs release, which takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic, will premiere at the Nyt timed to the 2nd anniversary of Roe v Wade being overturned.

Titled Lynne Sachs: From the Outside In, the retrospective traverses Sachs’ documentary films, defiant of traditional genre or style. The program notes continue, “From peering out, collecting others’ experiences and world events, to looking inward, reflecting on familial histories and entanglements, Sachs weaves the political with the personal.

Exclusive: A collection of documentaries from acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Sachs is coming to the Criterion Channel in October.

The streaming platform will showcase seven Sachs films beginning October 1, ranging from the 1994 short Which Way Is East to her most recent work, including E•pis•to•lar•y: Letter to Jean Vigo, an exploration of the French director’s classic 1933 film Zero for Conduct (Zéro de Conduite).

On October 13, the Criterion Channel will exclusively stream her latest feature documentary, Film About a Father Who, which examines Sachs’ relationship with her unorthodox father, Ira Sachs Sr, whose children include Lynne and fellow filmmaker Ira Sachs Jr.

“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,” the director has written. “With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs’ cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous,...

Fandor is partnering with Kickstarter to launch production of four new short films: Daniel Stuyck's The Eternal, Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker's Every Fold Matters, Ani Simon Kennedy's Hench and Josh Gibson's Pig/Pork. What's more, with Alex Cox joining our Fix Filmmakers Initiative, we'll be premiering a short from his new film, Tombstone Rashomon, currently raising funds with an Indiegogo campaign. "After the immensely successful launch of FIXshorts in March, it was essential to roll-out another quartet of projects as those films near completion," says our co-founder and Chief Content Officer, Jonathan Marlow. » - David Hudson...

Fandor is partnering with Kickstarter to launch production of four new short films: Daniel Stuyck's The Eternal, Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker's Every Fold Matters, Ani Simon Kennedy's Hench and Josh Gibson's Pig/Pork. What's more, with Alex Cox joining our Fix Filmmakers Initiative, we'll be premiering a short from his new film, Tombstone Rashomon, currently raising funds with an Indiegogo campaign. "After the immensely successful launch of FIXshorts in March, it was essential to roll-out another quartet of projects as those films near completion," says our co-founder and Chief Content Officer, Jonathan Marlow. » - David Hudson...