Ira Sachs Movies

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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