Movies: Ira Sachs

A portrait of the filmmaker's father, an American businessman on a quest for money and women in modern Moscow....

From 1984 to 2019, Lynne Sachs shot film of her father, a bon vivant and pioneering businessman. This documentary is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. As the startling facts mount, Sac...

During production of A Place in the Sun, Montgomery Clift meets the woman who will become his closest confidant and best friend, Elizabeth Taylor....

The story revolves around the Christodora, an East Village apartment building that was ground zero for the AIDS crisis....

Plot under wraps....

Woman's Picture is an anthology film inspired by classic women's films of the thirties, forties, and fifties. The story is divided into three sections, each of which deals with its own specific female character. The segments function as parallel dime...

Made for Underground Zero: Independent Filmmakers Respond to 9/11 This short video is made up of portraits taken from the fliers posted on the streets of New York following 9/11....

In this short film Ira decided to pay tribute to another one of Strand’s filmmakers, Jacques Nolot. His film is a meditation on not only the passage of time but on how we remember our lives through recorded images...

This short video uses surveillance-type images of men standing on an anonymous street corner as the conceptual foreground for an examination of the relationship between fathers and sons....