Sydney Cash Makes Too Much Art

Executive Producers

A Film by

Mandy Patinkin Kathryn Grody

Ivan Cash

Sydney Cash is an 80-year-old artist who can’t stop making art. When space runs out and time grows short, his family faces an urgent decision about the fate of his life’s work. Turning the camera on his father’s artistic legacy, a son confronts how a lifetime of compulsive creating impacted their family.

Sydney Cash (b. 1941) is a New York-based artist who gained national prominence in the late 1960s. In a career of 50 years, he has continually expanded his practice by inventing new ways and techniques for making art. His awards include two Pollock-Krasner grants, a NEA fellowship, a NYFA fellowship, and a Felissimo Award. His work is in over 30 museums. His sculpture is in MoMA's collection, they've sold his jewelry in their design stores, and commissioned a collection of kinetic glass vases.

Sydney Cash

Ivan Cash

Ivan Cash is an award-winning artist and filmmaker exploring what makes us human. His work has been exhibited globally at SXSW, the Brooklyn Museum, London's V&A Museum, and featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. His last film, SEA LION COW premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and was acquired by Rolling Stone Films. He has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30, Eames Institute Curious 100, Adweek Creative 100, and an Art Directors Club Young Gun.

SYDNEY CASH MAKES TOO MUCH ART examines the heightened sensitivity of the artistic condition through the story of a father and son. Beautiful, loving, courageous, unbearably painful and far too familiar, it becomes personal to the viewer no matter how hard you try to keep your distance.

Mandy Patinkin, Emmy Award-winning actor and Executive Producer

What begins as an intimate portrait of an eccentric artist expands into a rich exploration of inheritance, memory, and the burden of a life's accumulation. Deeply personal and quietly profound, SYDNEY CASH MAKES TOO MUCH ART transforms one family's reckoning into larger generational questions: What do we choose to preserve, what do we let go, and what does it mean to inherit a legacy?