Press Kit for “Your Day is My Night”
A press kit, transcript, and set of stills are now available for “Your Day is my Night” set to premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in February 2013.
January 9, 2013
CURRENT
November 11, 2012
MOTHER WORKS @ Microscope Gallery (including Same Stream Twice by L. Sachs)
With women issues at the forefront of recent political and social discourse, we present an evening of videos by working women artists including Catherine Elwes, Marni Kotak, Linda Mary Montano and Lynne Sachs concerning motherhood. The program features original video works and a rare interview with artist Mary Kelly, covering four decades from the setting of 70s feminism, where motherhood was often marginalized, to today’s over-the-top celebration of mommy culture.
August 25, 2012
Rabbis of the Round Table
Back in 2004, I proposed to my husband Mark Street that I start a Torah study group for our half-Jewish-half-secular-humanist (the only unofficial faith or –ism he would embrace) 9 and 7 year-old daughters Maya and Noa Street-Sachs. He agreed reluctantly and skeptically, convinced that this passing fancy of mine for constructing a homemade form of religious learning would certainly go the way of Pilates or learning to cook.
August 2, 2012
Some Thoughts on my Friend Chris Marker
In San Francisco in the mid-1980s, I saw Chris Marker’s “Sans Soleil”. I witnessed his mode of daring, wandering filmmaking with a camera. Alone, he traveled to Japan, Sweden and West Africa where he pondered revolution, shopping, family, and the gaze in a sweeping but intimate film essay that shook the thinking of more filmmakers than any film I know. Marker’s essay film blended an intense empathy with a global picaresque. Simultaneously playful and engaged, the film presented me with the possibility of merging my interests in cultural theory, politics, history and poetry — all aspects of my life I did not yet know how to bring together – into one artistic expression.
May 17, 2012
XY Chromosome Project presents “A Shot in the Dark”
The XY Chromosome Project (Mark Street and Lynne Sachs) presents an
evening of eight single image films of no more than five minutes to be
premiered at the Spectacle Cinema along with the screening of two
classics of the same ilk, both avant-garde and political. Special
guest filmmaker Larry Gottheim will join us for the screening of his 1970
avant- garde tour de force.
May 6, 2012
American Corner presents “The Last Happy Day” in Budapest May 22 2012
The 2009 film by Lynne Sachs is a portrait of a doctor who saw the
worst of society and ran. The Last Happy Day is an experimental
documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical
doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker Lynne Sachs.
April 22, 2012
Proteus Gowanus Presents Your Day is My Night Interactive Film and Performance
This month, the Proteus Migration Film & Video Series will host a unique cinema-performance event which enacted throughout our various project spaces. Brooklyn-based filmmaker, Lynne Sachs, will bring us a specially designed evening of film and integrated movement pieces based on her recent work with a group of Chinese and Puerto Rican performers.
April 13, 2012
The Last Happy Day by Lynne Sachs at Zeitgeist in New Orleans April 18
New Orleans, Louisiana’s Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments presents “The Last Happy Day” by Lynne Sachs on Wednesday, April 18 at 8:15 p.m.
April 12, 2012
Your Day is My Night: Performance and Film – 4/21
A collective of Chinese performers living in New York City explores “shiftbeds” through verité conversations, character-driven fictions and an integrated movement piece.
February 27, 2012
To your health, a poem
Here is a poem I wrote before the passage of Obama’s Health Care plan. The worry continues as we speed our way toward the next election.