Category Archives: SECTIONS

The Washing Society + Hand Book: A Manual / Shapeshifters Cinema

Lynne Sachs – The Washing Society + Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry
7pm Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland

https://canyoncinema.com/2025/10/14/lynne-sachs-the-washing-society-hand-book-a-manual-on-performance-process-and-the-labor-of-laundry-shapeshifters-cinema-nov-11-2025/

Co-presented by the Friends of Canyon Cinema

Admission: $10 (discount for Shapeshifters members; free for Friends of Canyon)

Event tickets here

NYC-based filmmaker Lynne Sachs joins us for a deep, poetic dive into laundry—an area of focus she has examined over the past decade, through her film The Washing Society (co-directed with Lizzie Olesker) and a new book, Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry, just released by Punctum Books.

Along with a screening of The Washing Society, Lynne will present a performative reading, with Shapeshifters Programming Director Kathleen Quillian, of excerpts from Hand Book as well as engage in a discussion about the book, film, and process with Canyon Cinema Executive Director Brett Kashmere.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and can be signed by the artist after the event.

SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA provides a venue and support for contemporary artists working with experimental and artist-made film, video, sound, music and other types of mediated performance. We host screenings and performances by local and visiting artists in our intimate 40-seat theatre and offer workshops on a variety of experimental and DIY moving image and sound production. Our storefront shop specializes in print publications, DVDs, sound recordings and other kinds of media made by artists who have screened or performed in our venue.

SHAPESHIFTERS BREWERY makes a variety of small-batch, seasonal, hand-crafted beers, brewed on-site in a space right behind the cinema. These are served (to 21+) at all our events as well as some off-site events. Find out more at shapeshiftersbrewery.com

SHAPESHIFTERS CAFÉ, is right next door to our cinema! We offer freshly-made salads, sandwiches, coffee, tea, pastries and more. Open Monday-Friday 6am-2pm and every Saturday 10am-2pm. Find out more at shapeshifterscafe.com

This Side of Salina / Buffalo International Film Festival

Raising Aniya and This Side of Salina

Raising Aniya

John Fiege (Dir), 84 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

Director John Fiege in attendance.

Aniya is a young dance artist in Houston, Texas, who embarks on a journey to heal her spirit and find her voice after being displaced by a hurricane. With guidance from her mentor, Aniya investigates impacted communities on the Gulf Coast and develops a dance performance inspired by her experiences and the complex legacies of environmental injustice. Family, religion, sexuality, and mental health collide as she strives to transform dark histories into beautiful expression and movement. Through intimate observational cinematography, evocative dance sequences, and a haunting score, Aniya’s story traces the agony and the ecstasy of growing up, while revealing the power of art and community.

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“This Side of Salina”

Lynne Sachs (Dir), 12 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

Director Lynne Sachs, and Featured Performers J’Viona Baker, Vernahia Davis, Ja’Rhea Dixon and Angela Stroman in attendance.

Four women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services. In a series of their own choreographed vignettes, each woman thoughtfully engages with the neighborhoods she’s known all of her life. Two performers flip through classic 1960s titles by Black authors in a bookstore. Others sit in a hat store finding time to pour into each other, as mentors and confidantes. Together they look down at the city from its highest point and wonder how to battle its inequities. For them, it’s a place they hold dear but always cautiously doubt. Produced with the support of Layla’s Got You and Light Work, Syracuse, New York.

https://www.buffalofilm.org/events/raising-aniya-w-this-side-of-salina/

  • Buffalo International Film Festival 2025
  • Paige Sarlin interviews This Side of Salina team: Lynne Sachs, J’Viona Baker, Ja’Rhea Dixon, Vernahia Davis
  • Layla’s Got You Director Tiffany Lloyd joins for Q&A
  • Experimental Filmmakers at BIFF: Julie Forrest Wyman, Josh Solondz, Kelly Sears, Laura Kraning, Lynne Sachs

Skin in the Game / Millennium Film Workshop

SKIN IN THE GAME IS screening GIRL IN A DAUNTING NOW

October 24–25, 2025

Millennium Film Workshop

What does it mean to put your body—your real, pulsing, breakable body—on the line?

SKIN IN THE GAME is a two-day program of screenings, performances, a group exhibition, and the release of a risograph poetry leaflet (Bad Saturn Media), presenting work by 21 international artists, filmmakers, and poets. The event takes place October 24–25, 2025 at Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn, a historic nonprofit arts space dedicated to experimental film and the moving image.

Curated by Michèle Saint-Michel, the program explores the body as archive, threshold, and offering. Saint-Michel’s curatorial practice draws on her own work across somatic memory, feminist ecologies, and quantum poetics, creating exhibitions that bring vulnerability, resistance, and intimacy into sharp relief.

The works in SKIN IN THE GAME speak from the surface of the skin and the space just beneath it: the site of contact, exposure, rupture, and healing. Across media—including moving image, sound, performance, poetry, sculpture, and text—the participating artists engage questions of embodiment as resistance, surreal and speculative self-mapping, fabric and clothing as vessels of memory, and gestures of intimacy, care, and protest.

Millennium Film Workshop
Founded in 1966, Millennium Film Workshop has been a cornerstone of New York’s experimental film community for nearly six decades. As both a screening venue and a hub for independent creators, Millennium has fostered generations of artists pushing the boundaries of the moving image. Today, the Workshop continues its legacy of supporting radical practices through exhibitions, residencies, and educational initiatives.

Bad Saturn
Founded in 2020, Bad Saturn Media is a small press and publishing initiative, dedicated to releasing experimental books, poetry collections, and collaborative zines for a more care-full world. Bad Saturn works with artists and writers to bring intimate, challenging, and beautifully designed projects to our community.

Event Details
Dates: October 24–25, 2025
Location: Millennium Film Workshop, 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Program: Screening series, gallery exhibition, live performances, and risograph poetry leaflet release featuring 21 artists, filmmakers, and poets.

Protesta / Contractions

https://www.festivalprotesta.cat/wp-content/uploads/PROTESTA-2025.pdf

Protesta is an international film festival of social criticism that aims to do its bit to help transform society through cinema. We want to transform it constructively, positively and creatively, making the festival a true celebration of denunciation cinema.

Agnès Vardà, Alice Rohrwacher, Neus Ballús Montserrat, Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, Ken Loach, Kelly Reichardt, Nadine Labaki, and we could name many more. They are filmmakers who define a certain way of understanding and working with cinema. An exquisite cinema that also does politics, as we also want to do from the festival. As our favorite grandfather, Ken Loach, says: “all cinema is political”. Cinema is a way of shedding light on hidden realities and raising the volume of silenced voices. It is a medium that appeals to emotions in a very direct way: cinema makes you feel, it allows you to get into the shoes of people who suffer injustices, and we believe that, too often, what society lacks is precisely feeling and empathizing more. And what better letter of introduction for the festival than our reference voices in cinema? Politically committed people, who make authentic cinematic gems, who appeal for a new way of making cinema and of making festivals: feminist, transversal, intersectional, and with care at the center, without competing, without the glamour of the capitalist orbit of Hollywood, an authentic cinema, of ordinary people and socially committed, with small and local stories that become global, that moves towards equality of opportunities in all fields of film production, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation and length etc. We want to be a useful tool for society and that generates a transformative effect.

And we want to be a festival involved in the territory and cultural and social projects, but above all connected to authentic social networks, people. A speaker of denunciation through films and all kinds of activities.

We also reject the precariousness of the sector, filled with people who work for free or underpaid, and we oppose the way capitalist festivals are held, copied from the most toxic Hollywood, with the superficiality of red carpets. We, the carpets, want them to rise to show so much abuse and violence suffered for many years.

We want to reach all audiences, especially those with more difficulties accessing this type of cultural offer. Often film festivals that show various problems also do not end up reaching the audience that could feel more identified with them. For this reason, Protesta is based and screens the majority of its films in the Remei neighborhood of Vic, with a high percentage of the population with few economic resources.

This is our commitment as a festival; to show the public a cinema that fights against injustices through art. Of course, the Protesta will be a party, the party of social cinema, with many surprises that will make us laugh, dance and even sing!

LAUNDRY CYCLES with Alvin Eng, Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs / Torn Page

Sunday, September 28, 2025
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
435 W 22nd St New York, New York
https://www.tornpage.org/events/2025/9/28/laundry-cycles-with-alvin-eng-lizzie-olesker-and-lynne-sachs

Join us for LAUNDRY CYCLES, a lively afternoon literary performance and conversation celebrating two new books that look inside neighborhood spaces where the work of laundry gets done. 

Author Alvin Eng will read from OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond, a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of his upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Eng will also present songs and monologues from his acoustic punk raconteur performance piece, HERE COMES JOHNNY YEN AGAIN (or How I Kicked Punk). 

“Powerful, funny at times and consistently inspiring… Alvin Eng’s memoir looks back at the past to envision a better future.” David Henry Hwang, playwright

Co-authors Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs will read from HAND BOOK: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry, a collection of writings and images from a performance and film set within New York City laundromats. Their book is a quasi-cinematic encounter, calling to mind the intimacy of touching other people’s clothes, almost like a second skin, the textural care for things kept close to the body.  Actor-collaborators Ching Valdez-Aran and Tony Torn will perform from the book’s playscript, a rumination on the convergence of dirt, stains, money, identity, and desire. With clips from Olesker and Sachs’s hybrid documentary THE WASHING SOCIETY.

“A generously kaleidoscopic offering of perspectives, histories and bodies.” Christopher Harris, filmmaker

Alvin Eng is a native NYC author/playwright, songwriter, educator and performer. His plays and performances have been seen Off-Broadway, in Paris, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China. As a 2024-25 New York Public Library Fellow, he began researching a companion book to his memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town (Fordham University Press). 

Lizzie Olesker makes theater reflecting on the politics and poetry of everyday experience, seen in NYC at New Georges, the Cherry Lane, and Public Theater. Her most recent plays include 5 Stages of Grief, Night Shift, and the collaborative Language of Dolls.

Lynne Sachs is a filmmaker and poet who investigates the connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself. Embracing archives, found images, letters, and journals, her work enacts a critical journey through reality and memory. Her feature film Every Contact Leaves a Trace will have its world premiere at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in November.

Ching Valdes-Aran is a Filipino-American actress of stage, television, and film, who was trained as a dancer. Her many credits include an international tour of Geoff Sobel’s Home, Lav Diaz’s film From What is Before, and multiple appearances at La Mama, Mabou Mines, and New York Theater Workshop.  

Tony Torn is an actor and director with more than 100 stage and screen credits including Ubu Sings Ubu, King Lear, Mud, and In the Solitude of Cotton Fields at Hudson River Park Pier 45. He recently directed the acclaimed play The Whole of Time at Torn Page and the Brick Theater, and is known for his extensive work with legendary experimental theater artists Richard Foreman and Reza Abdoh.

Communities of Care: Using Film as a Tool of Reproductive Justice / Jengo’s Playhouse

October 11, 2025
Jengo’s Playhouse
Wilmington North Carolina
https://jengos.eventive.org/schedule/687e58210810ba32d6f4ba86

Join us on Saturday, October 11, for a screening by The Abortion Clinic Film Collective, a group of feminist filmmakers with diverse backgrounds and distinctive styles who came together from around the country in the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade. In the ACFC series, we hear from medical directors and staff, mothers and daughters, criminal defense attorneys and advocates, about how their personal and professional lives have been affected post-Dobbs. Each portal provides a window into the broad and life-threatening ramifications of that Supreme Court decision and its devastating legacy for the health and well-being of our country and people.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Cali M. Banks, Lori Felker, KellyGallagher, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Đoan Hoàng, Luiza Parvu, Raymond Rea, Lynne Sachs, and Sasha Waters.

About:

The ACFC was born out of rage. After the overturn of Roe V Wade and the end to a woman’s federal right to abortion, I began reaching out to filmmakers from across the country. I asked if they would contribute to a project looking at the impact from different states’ perspectives, especially in those areas most affected. The Abortion Clinic Film Collective was born. In haste and with limited access to resources, seven films were created focusing on states from Arizona to Tennessee, South Dakota to Texas, and beyond.

-Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Films

A Mile and a Half by Raymond Rea

Contractions by Lynne Sachs

As Long As We Can by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Retracing Our Steps by Kelly Gallagher

Longest Walk by Đoan Hoàng Curtis

We Are About to Commit a Felony by Sasha Waters

Hemorrhage by Ruth Hayes

Catch Us On The Way Down by Cali M. Banks

What Was (Working Title) by Lindsay Opoku-Acheampong

Freedom From (Working Title) by Lori Felker

Eggshells by Luiza Parvu

Lynne Sachs’ Artistic Journey: Poetics and Cross-Media Experimentation Lynne Sachs 的创作之旅

https://jilucommune.com/en/programs/44

https://jilucommune.com/en/library/works/10

Programmer & Curator: Huilin Chen
Sept – Oct., 2025 – three week workshop

Lynne Sachs has always defied easy labeling. She captures movement and skin texture, fragments of speech, casual moments, and hidden personal memories, weaving them into unexpected images… She elevates personal experience into dramatic expression… and uses a diverse range of cinematic languages ​​to record and digest the world, presenting it to the audience through the beauty of performance.

—Excerpt from Ren Scateni’s 2020 article

Lynne Sachs, a master of experimental documentary, has carved a unique niche in the field of experimental nonfiction over the past four decades. Her work is diverse not only in form but also in subject matter. She uniquely interweaves the personal and the social, the poetic and the political. Her work often spans a variety of media, including sound, performance, correspondence, and archival footage, integrating nonfiction narrative, poetry, feminism, and experimental aesthetics. She frequently collaborates with diverse artists to explore the boundaries of her work.

Whether she shoots on her own or collaborates with others, her work often begins with an “accident”—a poem, a powerful emotion, a chance encounter with a vintage home video, or an encounter with a friend—rather than a neat documentary proposal. Her films often blur the lines between politics and poetry, family and society, inviting viewers to view cinema as a constantly fluid space of encounters, memories, and genuine emotional concerns.

This masterclass will offer an intimate glimpse into Lynne’s rich and profound oeuvre. She will recount her journey across media, from 16mm film to video to hybrid performance, weaving the stories behind key works such as “A Film About A Father Who,” “A Month of Single Frames (for Barbara Hammer),” “Your Day is My Night,” and “The Washing Society.”

Chat Box

Leee
The scene of the little girl playing under the table reminded me of my own childhood. Such
places always made me feel very safe when I was young, and that sense of security returned to me
through this image.
 
Zemin
A drop of water falling into a man’s mouth, exploring the shadow of the whale and the light of crab.
 
starfishsoup
有一个视频像在用鼠标滑动图片检查皮肤纹理很有意思
 
zhaowen
What impressed me most was the combination two seq: the shark and the fish in the ocean towards
infinity, and next sec it is the dead body of fish on the chopping board. They are all facing their destination
永恒吧，你们这些让人哭泣的，无限美丽的存在
 
Hester Kwok
What stuck with me was when the IUD was removed from the woman’s body and hammered into a
straight line, like a piece of precious metal. It was very metaphorical.  Footage#18
The two children by the bonfire reminded me of Wang Bing’s The Diao People.
Filming dir’s own shadow makes me wonder — What kind of path is this? Am I walking in circles?
 
Jojo
A fun one: fire and chicken make me think of turkey huoji
 
Pei Yuan Zhang
Memorable moments: the connection between fish and sausage/pig bodies;  two girls and a cameraman
dance with a reed, flashlight, and moon; a girl plays with fire; the oldman smiles to the camera with his tone
 
Lynne
The girl under the bed is so happy to be hiding. The girl hopping is enthralled by her own movement. The
young women in the plaza are transformed by their costumes, they become people from another time in history.
I love the period blood!
The meat products in the market makes me realize again the cruelty and injustice we have done to other
animals.
 
Ping Ho
Shadow play in motion, yellow bleeding to purple, am I being watched?
 
Shine
Harbin princess very interesting scene!
  
sally zhong
After shooting out almost 100 people’s life, this one-minute is so far the boldest film I’ve ever made.
Pei Yuan Zhang
making the film is not intentional, it is an improv from spontaneoty, and unpredictability; we dance with
each other and the cameraman (who is my partner)
  
Jojo
Waking up, planning to film my own body, instead, walking out of the door, walking into the market and
see the animals in the market and felt a lot about them.
 
Shine
(Space and body definitly reminds me of club nights. To edit all the phone-shot footage in the past five
years into one minute feels crazy hehe.

Workshop Outline

Career

  1. How did you first learn documentary filmmaking, and why did you choose the
    experimental path?
  2. Which artists or thinkers have influenced your creative vision?
    Trinh T. Minha, Chris Marker, Rainer Fassbinder Jia Zhangke, Maya Deren, Theresa
    Hak Kyung Cha, Yvonne Rainer, poet Bernadette Mayer, W.G. Sebald, Douglas Sirk,
    Wim Wenders, Ken Jacobs, George Kuchar, Bill Greaves, Christopher Harris
  3. What advice would you give to university students studying film and media
    today?
  4. When making experimental documentaries, how much do you consider the
    audience? 
    Inspiration & Creative Process
  5. Where do you find inspiration for your work, and how do you transform it into
    films?
  6. How do you present a sense of everyday poetry in your films?
  7. How do you approach the relationship and transitions between different media in
    your practice?
  8. How do you establish a clear narrative thread when working across multiple
    media? How important is storytelling in experimental documentary?
  9. In experimental filmmaking, how do you avoid overwhelming the audience with
    too many layered images or metaphors?
  10. In your film Film About a Father Who, you used family recordings, poetic
    narration, and silence—how do you approach sound design as part of
    storytelling? 
    Personal vs. Collective
  11. How do you navigate the relationship between personal archives and collective
    historical memory in your films?
  12. How do you view the role and challenges of women creators in experimental
    cinema?
    Technology
  13. How do you view the impact of AI on documentary filmmaking and ideas of truth?
    SPARK: “the body in space”


In filmmaking, we are always negotiating the photographing of images that contain the
body. We bring experiential, political or aesthetic contingencies to both the making and
viewing of a cinema that contains the human form. If a body is different from our own –
in terms of gender, skin color, or age – perhaps we frame it differently without even
realizing it. We all know that looking at a body on screen affects us emotionally,
psychologically and physically. When we speak of “space,” we must consider three
dimensional issues of the here and now as well as more speculative conditions that
arrive when we contemplate the future.
You are invited to make a film inspired by the theme of “the body in space”. Your film will be
part of a collective film made by our entire group.

  • Your film should be exactly one minute. Not shorter. Not longer.
  • Use any camera including your cell phone
  • Your film can be one single shot multiple edited shots.
  • Your film should be silent.
  • Please do not add credits with your name. We will have all names at the end of
    the collective film.
  • Please label your file (under 300 mb) in this way: Last name_first name.mp4
  • Please upload your completed file by Oct. 17 to this online folder:__
  • We will all meet again to watch and discuss our collective film which will
    premiere on Oct. 24 at 8 am EDT/ NYC Time).

Hand Book at Printed Matter Art Book Fair 2025 with Allied Productions

Allied/LPV has a double presence at the fair this year with Table T17 & a site specific installation, -INTERSECTIONS- for PM’s new project, The Reading Room.

Book Launches / Signings @ Allied Booth T17

Thursday September 11
7pm: Peter Cramer & Jack Waters
8pm: Ministry, Reverend Joyce McDonald

Friday September 12
3pm: Lucia Maria Minervini, Not Selfies, Portraits

Saturday September 13
Noon – 2pm: Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs – Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry
4pm: Ethan Shoshan, Self-Help Psychic Reading

Sunday September 14
2pm: Lucia Maria Minervini, Not Selfies, Portraits

Among the book artists at our Table T17 we will present:

Joyce McDonald – Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald – Catalogue published in conjunction with Visual AIDS and Bronx Museum for her upcoming  exhibition at Bronx Museum – 2025.
The first book dedicated to the sculptural practice of Reverend Joyce McDonald, published on the occasion of her solo exhibition at The Bronx Museum. Through sculpture, Reverend Joyce McDonald crafts moving testimonies to themes that have shaped her life: hope, grace, and serenity, but also hardship, loss, and devotion. Her work often depicts figures in repose or embrace, embodying the strength, support, and unconditional love that has sustained her life.McDonald began working with clay in 1997 through an art therapy program, shortly after her diagnosis with HIV. She quickly recognized the medium’s potential for healing and transformation. Working intuitively, she allows figures to emerge from the clay, giving form to memories and emotion while processing experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and illness.The fully-illustrated catalogue features essays by Kyle Croft and Dr. Jareh Das, alongside a conversation between McDonald and fellow artist Rafael Sánchez.

Lucia Maria Minervini – Not Selfies, Portraits – 2025
“Not Selfies, Portraits” began in 2012 as a reaction to the rise of the very popular and still invasive mania of taking selfies. The great respect for the long history of Portraiture inspired this digital project in response to selfies, which appeared to the author as a degradation of the historical genre of portraiture. For Lucia Minervini as a follower of Jungian psychology, these portraits trace her path of individuation through some of Jung’s great ideas: the collective unconscious, archetypes, the anima/animus and the shadow.

Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs – Hand Book: A Manual on Performance , Process, and the Labor of Laundry – 2025
Hand Book is a collection of writings and images that came out of a hybrid documentary performance and film made by Sachs and Olesker that was set within a neighborhood laundromat, a microcosm of service work within our city. With a focus on the people who wash and fold “drop-off” loads, Hand Book explores the convergence of dirt, stains, money, identity, and desire. 

Sur Rodney Sur – Ribald
Jack Waters – Pestilence #8 
GRRRR – Various unique art books 
Ethan Shoshan – Various titles and objects
Peter Cramer – Acqua Dotte / Covid TImes / B&W Study-The Zine.

And other unique publications from our archives including Diseased Pariah News, HYPE,  Leilah Babirye monograph, RED TAPE Magazines.

Allied Productions/Le Petit Versailles presents INTERSECTIONS, a multi media installation for The Reading Room at Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair 2025.  This project will encompass archival materials from various projects initiated by Peter Cramer and Jack Waters that highlight decades of art, activism and advocacy. Subjects include LGBTQ identity & AIDS politics, gentrification and preservation of NYC gardens, and will feature cable access videos as represented by HoMoVISIONES, a Latino caucus of ACT UP. 

The Reading Room is a new incarnation of Friendly Fire, a program initiated in 2011 to highlight activist and grassroots-focused Fair exhibitors. The Reading Room highlights Fair exhibitors engaged in activism and grassroots struggles related to a particular theme. The NYABF 2025 Reading Room is produced in dialogue with Archivos Desviados, an ongoing exhibition at Printed Matter’s bookstore in Chelsea, and explores the relationship between publishing and queer and trans liberation, third world solidarity, and revolutionary action. In contrast to the rapid speed at which visitors move through the Fair, this program offers an alternative space to engage in close reading, critique, and reflection. 

Swerve / Labocine

https://www.labocine.com/issues/mindfulness

In a world of acceleration and distraction, this collection offers a cinematic pause. Through inner landscapes, gentle rituals, and attentive observation, we explore films that breathe. These works trace the intimate connection between mind and body—where thought meets sensation, and perception becomes presence. States of attention unfold into states of wellbeing, revealing how cinema can hold space for stillness, awareness, and transformation.

LABOCINE stands for LABOratory + CINEma. It’s a beautiful and necessary symbiosis affair.

LABOCINE has many identities: a platform, a magazine, a portal, an archive, a network et al.

LABOCINE’s utopian dream is to disrupt the status quo of the streaming business by allowing for more transparency, access, data and tools. It wants to tackle some existential questions around filmmaking. How do narratives come to life? What is the process + evolution of a film? Who is making and who is watching?