Ira Sachs Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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