Kid on Hip, Camera in Hand Interview with Lynne Sachs
A program of films by women who look at the world through the lens of motherhood
August 31, 2011
CURRENT
July 15, 2011
Experimental TV Center presents Sachs & Street at Anthology Film Archives
Street and Sachs, a Brooklyn filmmaking couple, negotiate the thin line between representation and abstraction in each second of this moving image extravaganza. Created in the grand tradition of the Cartesian and chromosomal construct, what looks like a tree can quickly turn into a train, a telephone pole or an angry bowl of soup, as our audience hangs on for dear life. Sachs makes theatrical gestures and tableaux using hands, toys, a plate of cherry pie, and a miniature of the Empire State Building. Street produces photochemically conjured flowers, fishing tackle, and shards of found film – – all flying by at a variety of speeds in the spirit of a Man Ray print.
May 19, 2011
Ten Short Film by Lynne Sachs at Austin Film Society
Wednesday, May 25 at 7 PM
AFS Screening Room (1901 E. 51st St, Gate 2 by water tower)
$5 AFS Members & Students w/ Valid ID / $8 General Public
Q&A with Lynne Sachs via Skype, moderated by Austin experimental filmmaker/teacher Caroline Koebel
April 20, 2011
Lynne Sachs’ first film in Chick Docs- I Hate You
Boredom, murder, dress-up, dress-down, the underworld and the inner world. Angry lost resigned women navigate you through a hormonal roller coaster with this collection of documents of events and emotions. This is a biography of the shadowlands of the female psyche, with no cause or apology. Curated from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative collection by Jasmine Hirst and Katherine Bauer.
April 20, 2011
The Urban Landscape in Cinematic Transformation
The avant-garde/experimental cinematic form reconfigures traditional narratives and personal experiences, particularly among local subcultures—such as East Village punk, Chinatown markets, Lower East Side rock and roll, and the downtown subversive art and performance scene—creating a parallel between constant evolution of the urban landscape and its inhabitants and the experimental form. We propose to feature avant-garde films from our collection that feature the changing urban landscapes and the people who inhabit them.
April 5, 2011
THE WEIGHTLESS BODY: Films by Lynne Sachs at ReRun Gastro Pub in Brooklyn
Praised by the New York Times as “one of the leading New York independent filmmakers,” Brooklyn-based artist Lynne Sachs has—in a career spanning over twenty years—woven together poetry, collage, painting, politics, layered sound design, and a myriad of cinematic formats to explore the intricate relationship between her personal observations and broader historical experiences.
March 1, 2011
Lynne at Punto de Vista Film Festival, Pamplona, Spain
“Naming an international film festival after a term for subjectivity is, in my mind, a radical stance. Rather than taking the more obvious city or country identified name, which brings attention to the community, the Punto de Vista festival celebrates a first person cinema based on the documentary practice of working with reality, that privileges the expression of ideas over the dissemination of information.”
February 19, 2011
An Argentine excursion: film frames, talk therapy, and ice cream
Our cinematic relationship to Argentina began in 2007, when the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI) invited Lynne to show a retrospective of her films. During the one week she was in this film-crazy city, she met Pablo Marin and Leandro Listorti, two extraordinarily active Argentine experimental filmmakers with a commitment to making movies and screening and writing about their thriving alternative film community.
February 16, 2011
Alexander Lenard: A Life in Letters by Lynne Sachs in Hungarian Quarterly
For over seventy years, a steady stream of letters was exchanged between Alexander Lenard and members of my family in Memphis, Tennessee. Most of these reflections on everything from stock market prices to family trips, to the legacy of war to the cost of cranberry seeds, were exchanged between Sandor (he was called in the family by his Hungarian first name, without the accent) and my great-uncle William (a.k.a. Bill) Goodman.
January 24, 2011
Lynne Sachs at Wellesley College Collins Cinema Feb. 2, 2010 in Boston
Wellesley College Cinema and Media Studies Program presents “Inventions and Interventions,” the New Film and Media Visiting Artist Series.
Lynne Sachs has invented a unique hybrid cinema between the investigative documentary and the personal poetic film. Her work explores the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences Sachs’ films have screened most recently at the Museum of Modern Art and the Sundance Film Festival. On Feb. 2, see two films and a conversation with Sachs, co-sponsored by the Davis Museum and the Art Department.
