‘Every Contact Leaves a Trace’ Director on Why She Hired a Detective: ‘I’m Trying to Reconstruct a Life Story’

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Sachs says she’s been impressed by Ji.hlava films that span the globe while showcasing the full range of filmmaking approaches and perspectives. “There are about 24 movies to see.

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It’s kind of revelatory. Already I’ve seen two films here, one from Argentina and one from Congo and they really couldn’t be more different.

They make you think about the documentary paradigm.” Related Stories Harry Styles Debuts Unreleased Song He Wrote in Memory of Liam Payne, ‘What Is Enough,’ on Second Anniversary of Ex-Bandmate’s Death Harry Styles ‘Together, Together’ Tour Doc Coming From John Wilson, Universal Pictures Content Group (EXCLUSIVE) A case in point, she says: “Positionality.” Whose perspective is an audience seeing and is the filmmaker’s role visible or even known? It’s something Sachs has made crystal clear in her newest film, “Every Contact Leaves a Trace,” screening at Ji.hlava in its Czech premiere.

Sachs herself is clearly onscreen, investigating, making connections, doubting herself, and occasionally seeking help from a youthful niece and nephew as she goes through old business cards, some decades old, wondering at who gave them to her and what traces of lives contacting hers can still remain. The film is a kind of detective story that eventually enlists the actual analyses of forensic investigators as Sachs follows leads to track down people whose names remain in her box of hundreds of carefully preserved business cards – a good number she admits have lost all meaning to her.

“I actually hired a detective at one point,” she confesses. Some left burning impressions on her and she has always wondered what became of the card giver – such as an artist whose work touched her years ago or a fellow artist filmmaker who was later canceled over allegations of impropriety.

One card was from a Syrian woman whose family discouraged her from sitting for an on camera to share her experiences as a refugee – so Sachs settles for filming a tribute to the woman’s cooking skills. Sachs says she is also uneasy about terms that have come into common use for people in docus.

Rather than say “protagonists” or “characters,” she much prefers “on camera participants.” Or maybe “visible collaborators who are the people in front of the camera.” “We’re offered the chance to tell our story by the person behind the camera. What I don’t know is, who is the person behind the camera?” In the case of “Every Contact,” it’s clear to all who is filming and inquiring as Sachs visibly, sometimes awkwardly, tracks down people who once met her but certainly never expected her to appear again at their doorstep with a camera.

It’s a role she has not always put

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