Three minutes. One corner. Everything unsaid between fathers and sons.
This short video uses surveillance-type images of men standing on an anonymous street corner as the conceptual foreground for an examination of the relationship between fathers and sons.
Direction
Sachs turns CCTV footage into elegy without a single word.
Editing
Rapid cuts create rhythm from mundane stillness.
Director
Ira Sachs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sachs made this before his feature debut, already obsessed with queer male intimacy and the spaces where connection fails.
Shot in 2000, the grainy surveillance aesthetic predicted our current era of digital watching—TikTok before TikTok, but melancholic.
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