On tonight’s show, we’ll be joined by filmmaker Lynne Sachs and theater and performance maker and labor organizer Lizzie Olesker to discuss their 2018 film, The Washing Society, and to celebrate the debut of eight of Lynne Sachs’s films on the prestigious list of Criterion Classics.
Video release featured on Stereogum.
“I invited my friend Kim Wilberforce to be in my film and to interpret the song herself, through her vibrant wardrobe and her precise, ecstatic clapping gestures.”- LS
Kristine Leschper shares a video [by Lynne Sachs] for her new single “Figure And I.”
“Every film I make is a reflection of ideas that infiltrate my mind, intertwined with my daily reality. I’m fascinated with the urge to disobey, with anarchic desires, and continually wondering how best to confront authority.”
“A Month of Single Frames” will be included in the program RECALL [REWIND] which deals with the temporary absences of what has been and with practices of rendering invisible in the face of dominant image politics.
Familial relationships also form the core of many of Lynne Sachs’ experimental nonfiction works. Starting October 1, you can watch seven of her experimental shorts on Criterion Channel: Which Way Is East (1994), The Last Happy Day (2009), Wind in Our Hair (2010), The Washing Society (2018), Girl Is Presence (2020), E•pis•to•lar•y: Letter to Jean Vigo (2021), and Maya at 24 (2021).
This exclusive streaming premiere of “Film About a Father Who” is accompanied by a selection of experimental short films by Sachs, many of which also reflect her probing exploration of family relationships.
“Your Day Is My Night” on MUBI October 2021.
Following career retrospectives at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 and the Museum of the Moving Image in 2021, Lynne Sachs is being paid tribute to by the Criterion Channel.
