Year by Year: Poems featured in “Fonts In Use”
With one poem for each year from 1961 to 2011, the collection began as a half-century marker in Sachs’ life, reflecting on history and memory.
November 26, 2019
CURRENT
November 26, 2019
BBC Features “Which Way is East” in ‘The 100 greatest films directed by women: Who voted? L-Z’
BBC Culture polled film experts around the world for their favourite films directed by women.
November 15, 2019
Poets & Writers: Lynne Sachs Recommends
When you don’t know what to write, return full circle to what you’ve already written and begin to experiment and play.
October 11, 2019
10th Annual Experimental Lecture: Nathaniel Dorsky: Montage and the Human Spirit
NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department present the 10th Annual Experimental Lecture: Nathaniel Dorsky: Montage and the Human Spirit.
September 2, 2019
A Month of Single Frames (for Barbara Hammer)
“While editing the film, the words on the screen came to me in a dream. I was really trying to figure out a way to talk to the experience of solitude that Barbara had had, how to be there with her somehow through the time that we would all share together watching her and the film. My text is a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces at once.”
September 2, 2019
LUX & Club des Femmes Celebrating Barbara Hammer & Carolee Schneemann
Join LUX & Club des Femmes for a weekend of films, introductions, memories, a zine and an exhibition of ephemera and texts to celebrate the lives and work of feminist experimental artists Barbara Hammer and Carolee Schneemann.
July 21, 2019
Lynne Sachs at 2019 The Film and Video Poetry Symposium
Screening of “Tip of My Tongue” at the Film and Video Poetry Symposium
June 27, 2019
FemExFilmArchive interview with Lynne Sachs by Nadia Zafar
This collaborative project is an ongoing collective archive of interviews with feminist experimental filmmakers started in 2017 by feminist filmmaking students at UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis. Our students were invited to each select a filmmaker, research their work in detail, and invite the filmmaker to have a conversation with them.
June 25, 2019
That’s so Shanghai: YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT at China Women’s Film Festival
While the women’s film festival in Taiwan has an almost-20-year history, and many female directors in Hong Kong have been making their marks since the 1930s, women’s cinema is still in its infancy in mainland China. Although they came from different backgrounds, Ying Xin, Dan Li, Juan Jiang and Zhao-Yu Li shared a common desire to do something about women and arts, so the four first launched the first China Women’s Film Festival covering four cities in 2013.
June 22, 2019
Laundry Workers Center – Sunshine Laundry Center Protest
Workers Ricarda and Maria of Sunshine Shirt Laundry Center were unjustly fired. Owners Sharon and Huanxin Chen sent letters to the workers stating that their jobs were terminated because the business had closed.
