Ira Sachs Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A secret weapon known as Bob Hawk. As a...

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

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...

A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.

Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Norman René, Peter Hujar, Ethyl Eichelberger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cookie Mueller, Klaus Nomi... the list...

In Search of Avery Willard iIlluminates the life and work of the groundbreaking, and mostly forgotten, artist Avery Willard — photographer,...