“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.
2023
ARTICLES
2022
Takahiko Iimura In Memoriam / Millennium Film Journal
MFJ / WORLDS / FALL 2022 In Memoriam: Takahiko Iimura (1937 – 2022) by Lynne Sachs for Millennium Film Journal Vol. 76 “Worlds” Fall 2022 From 1967 to 2017, Japanese film artist Takahiko limura lived with his wife Akiko in New York City. At the same time, he also lived in Tokyo. Both places he called […]
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
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.
2019
“Damn Prescient: Ruminations on the Work of Bruce Baillie”
My first viewing of Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964) sent a shiver through my body and mind that ricochets to this very day.
