The Irish premiere of Lynne Sachs’ celebrated feature Film About a Father Who screens here alongside the world premiere of Myrid Carten’s short film Sorrow had a baby. Both artists will be in attendance for a discussion of their work following the screening. 

Both Film About a Father Who and Sorrow had a baby deal, in very different ways, with familial legacy incorporating personal archives and pushing against the traditional boundaries of documentary practice. Myrid Carten’s film Sorrow had a baby is also the first film produced through aemi’s annual film commissioning programme, supported by Arts Council of Ireland.  

PROGRAMME

Sorrow had a baby [WP] Myrid Carten

(aemi Film Commission 2021)

Sorrow had a baby explores the mother-daughter relationship through multiple lenses: memory, beauty, inheritance. Who writes the stories in a family? Who can change them?  

Film About a Father Who Lynne Sachs

Between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot film and video images of her father.

[WP] denotes World Premiere

'I absorbed the women in my life as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face.’

Vivian Gornick

Sorrow had a baby explores the mother-daughter relationship through multiple lenses: memory, beauty, inheritance. Who writes the stories in a family? Who can change them?  

Between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot film and video images of her father. 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.