“Hindsight is 20/20” by Lynne Sachs / Tenement Press
‘Hindsight is 20/20.’ It’s a double entendre, one of the best.
‘Hindsight is 20/20.’ It’s a double entendre, one of the best.
My engagement with Canyon Cinema started when I was a young filmmaker living in San Francisco in the mid 1980s.
“Strip it all down and get into the raw material. Let me share with you the images I’ve excavated from this archaeological hollow.”
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.
Lynne Sachs discusses her work and process with Italian newspaper, Il Maifesto.
As women in the director’s chair or anywhere else on a set, we should celebrate the bonds we build together behind the camera.
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.
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.
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.
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.