“Hindsight is 20/20” by Lynne Sachs / Tenement Press
‘Hindsight is 20/20.’ It’s a double entendre, one of the best.
2023
ARTICLES
2023
“The Art of Curation: In Celebration of Canyon Cinema Discovered” by Lynne Sachs
My engagement with Canyon Cinema started when I was a young filmmaker living in San Francisco in the mid 1980s.
2022
Lynne Sachs’ “Film Strip Tease” / Hoosac Institute
“Strip it all down and get into the raw material. Let me share with you the images I’ve excavated from this archaeological hollow.”
2021
Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar- Published, feat. Lynne Sachs
Flash Flaherty,the much-anticipated follow-up volume to The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, offers a people’shistory of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an annual event where participants confront and reimagine the creative process surrounding multiple document/documentary forms and modes of the moving image.
2020
Il Manifesto: Lynne Sachs, a dialogue of images to question our certainties
Lynne Sachs discusses her work and process with Italian newspaper, Il Maifesto.
2020
Women & Hollywood: “Collaboration Taught Me Different Ways of Making Films and Seeing the World” by Lynne Sachs
As women in the director’s chair or anywhere else on a set, we should celebrate the bonds we build together behind the camera.
2020
In Celebration of the Darkness: What Can Happen When the Lights Are Out
I would make a few films that allowed me to “open the door” on a person, group of people or place that I knew little about in order to develop a deeper understanding through my filmmaking. Then, I would turn the camera back on myself and my immediate surroundings to produce more personal, introspective films.
2020
Grasshopper Film – Single Take: Lynne Sachs on Jean-Luc Godard
As much I call myself a cinéphile, there are certain times in my filmmaking process — be it the production or post-production phase — when I try not to watch anything that is not going to help me strategize on how to solve a particular obstacle in front of me.
2019
Film Wax Interview with Lynne and Cast of Tip of My Tongue
In this Filmwax podcast discussion, we re-unite 4 of the 12 people from that unforgettable weekend a few summers back during the shooting for “Tip of My Tongue”, including myself, Accra Shepp, Andrea Kannapell and Lynne.
2019
World Records Journal presents “English is Spoken Here/ English is Broken Here”
Let us begin with the statement “English is spoken here.” I’ve been thinking about what the implications of this pronouncement might be in terms of an anchoring of a singular language and the drowning of others.
