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Vancouver Cinematheque Presents Film About a Father Who | Vancouver

Posted: February 11, 2021 at 11:00 pm
“Sachs achieves a poet­ic res­ig­na­tion about unknowa­bil­i­ty inside fam­i­lies, and the hid­den roots nev­er explained from look­ing at a fam­i­ly tree.”

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“Sachs achieves a poet­ic res­ig­na­tion about unknowa­bil­i­ty inside fam­i­lies, and the hid­den roots nev­er explained from look­ing at a fam­i­ly tree.”


Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times“This is not a por­trait. This is not a self-por­trait. This is my reck­on­ing with the conun­drum of our asym­me­try.” So exper­i­men­tal film­mak­er Lynne Sachs describes her beguil­ing new doc­u­men­tary and its pro­found­ly per­son­al intent: to rec­on­cile the com­pli­cat­ed rela­tion­ship between her­self and her bohemi­an father. Blend­ing an array of home-movie footage shot between 1984 and 2019 (a ver­i­ta­ble show­case of evolv­ing media for­mats, from 8mm to dig­i­tal), Film About a Father Who offers a kalei­do­scop­ic view of Sachs’s hip­pie-busi­ness­man father, one­time ​“Hugh Hefn­er of Park City, Utah,” whose knot­ty, often con­tra­dic­to­ry iden­ti­ties are slow­ly untan­gled by the doc­u­men­tar­i­an and her net­work of equal­ly bewil­dered sib­lings — many born from dif­fer­ent moth­ers, some kept secret from each oth­er. Through­out this can­did, brave­ly pub­lic act of intro­spec­tion, Sachs express­es con­flict­ed empa­thy for the aging patri­arch, a jovial but emo­tion­al­ly ret­i­cent man now in his eight­ies, and inter­ro­gates the bond implic­it in father-daugh­ter, and sib­ling-to-sib­ling, rela­tion­ships. Its open-end­ed title is a nod to Yvonne Rainer’s 1974 study of female mul­ti­plic­i­ty, Film About a Woman Who.

 

This rental includes a Q&A between Lynne Sachs and film crit­ic Ela Bittencourt.To stream this film:
Click on the ​“Stream” but­ton above.
This will take you to Cin­e­ma Guild’s stream­ing plat­form, where you can watch the film.


Pur­chase a vir­tu­al tick­et for $12 CAD (you may need to cre­ate an account first).
Once a vir­tu­al tick­et has been pur­chased, you have three days to watch the film.
If you are hav­ing tech­ni­cal issues with the stream, please click here.
This film is avail­able to stream in Cana­da only.

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Street Address 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 2L7
Contacts +1 604-688-8202
Website http://www.theCinematheque.ca/
Browse City ID A-0000001182

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