“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
WRITING
2022
Takahiko limura In Memoriam / Millennium Film Journal
MFJ / 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 home. When he was in town, he was an avid member of the local media art community. He […]
2022
Frames & Stanzas: A Film + Poetry Workshop w/ Lynne Sachs / Centre Film Festival
For thirty seconds, look at but try not to read the front page of any newspaper you can find in your home or on-line.
2022
Between Sight and Touch: Selected Shorts by Barbara Hammer / e-flux Screening Room
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, September 22 at 7pm for Between Sight and Touch, a screening of selected works by Barbara Hammer
2022
Lynne Sachs & ‘Film About A Father Who’ at MajorDocs
Film About A Father Who & Lynne Sachs Masterclass at MajorDocsMajorDocsSeptember 1, 2022Festival dates: October 4-8, 2022https://majordocs.org/festival/ PHILOSOPHY THE FIRST SLOW FILM FESTIVAL MajorDocs is the international creative documentary film festival in Mallorca; a space to discover other realities and other perspectives through carefully selected creative documentaries. In a time defined by the sheer excess of content, MajorDocs proposes a slow experience: a journey […]
2022
“A Hard Act to Follow” / An Essay by Lynne Sachs
Born in 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee, my father has always chosen the alternative path in life, a path that has brought unpredictable adventures, multiple children with multiple women, brushes with the police and a life-long interest in trying to do some good in the world.
2022
Poets of Queens Reading Series at Q.E.D. Astoria / Poets of Queens
Poets of Queens creates a community for poetry in Queens and beyond.
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.”
2022
Interview with Lynne Sachs / Costa Rica International Film Festival, Lynne Sachs Retrospective
The American filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs was honored by the tenth edition of the Costa Rica International Film Festival. 10CRFIC paid tribute to Sachs in a retrospective on her work featuring 14 of her films.
2022
Costa Rica International Film Festival: Opening the Family Album – A workshop with Lynne Sachs
This workshop is inspired by the work of Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, whose writing explores family relationships during the Fascist years and World War II. Ginzburg was a prescient artist who enjoyed mixing up conventional distinctions between fiction and non-fiction: “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt compelled at once to destroy it. The places, events, and people are all real.”
