While visiting CRFIC2022, the American director spoke with “La Nación” about what it meant to film her family for 30 years, the contradictions of the term “non-fiction,” and her fascination with Julio Cortázar.
In a world—all the more compounded by the global pandemic—where people still repress their self-expression for fear of ridicule, “Swerve” gets its message across loud and clear.
While Eden may at first appear as an image book, to be devoured with the eyes with the freedom of a journey without plan, engaging with the book in this way will cause you to miss its immersive, linear construction of meaning.
With “Swerve” making its world premiere this weekend at the BAMCinemaFest, Sachs and Javier graciously reteamed to talk about emerging from the pandemic to shoot the eight-minute short and turning verbal poetry into a cinematic language while making other choices about what to translate and what not to.
Lynne Sachs’ intriguing, original, arty, well-written, 8-minute film in which performers Emmy Catedral, Ray Ferreira, Inney Prakash, Jeff Preiss, and Juliana Sass recite Paolo Javier’s Original Brown Boy poems…
“Swerve,” a new short film by experimental and documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs will debut this Sunday, June 26 as part of a second program of shorts at BAMcinemaFest in Brooklyn.
One of Queens’ most diverse neighborhoods became the real-life setting for a new boundary-crushing film by director Lynne Sachs.
As Benjamin writes in the eighth thesis on history: “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule.” So our apocalypse is in part a refusal, a refusal to be amazed, and stupefied, to be mystified while the forces of reaction extract, exploit, and profit.
Lynne Sachs is an American filmmaker and poet who focuses on documentary and short experimental films, film essays and live performances.
“Strip it all down and get into the raw material. Let me share with you the images I’ve excavated from this archaeological hollow.”
