With a distinctly personal voice in independent cinema, filmmaker Ira Sachs explores the universal themes of love and desire, beginning with his touching debut The Delta to his forthcoming feature Keep the Lights On. From August 25 through September 4, 2012, Museum of the Moving Image will present Looking for Love: The Films of Ira Sachs, the first comprehensive New York retrospective of Sachs's work that includes all of his feature films and a selection of short films, each followed by a Pinewood Dialogue with Sachs in person. The series culminates on Tuesday, September 4, with a preview screening of his latest feature Keep the Lights On.
"Ira Sachs has quietly become a significant American filmmaker, with a body of work marked by intelligence, intimacy, and emotional authenticity," said David Schwartz, the Museum's Chief Curator. "Looking for Love will mark the first major retrospective of Sachs's films in New York."Having moved to New York from his hometown of Memphis in the 1980s, Sachs became a driving force in the New York film world, as the founder and co-curator of the monthly series Queer/Art/Film and as a teacher at New York University. With his feature debut The Delta being accepted to the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, Sachs immediately broke in to the independent cinema scene. Though he would not make his second feature for another nine years, Sachs returned to the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 with Forty Shades of Blue, this time winning the Grand Jury prize. Both of Sachs's early romantic dramas capture the physical intimacy and emotional distance between lovers struggling to accept their quietly tragic circumstances.
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