Laundromat Workers Air New York’s Dirty Laundry
A new film/performance spotlights the often-invisible workers who fold the clothes, maintain the machines and know your secrets.
2015
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2015
Fandor’s Fix gives female directors a vital platform
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lynne Sachs and Nina Menkes are American independent, experimental filmmakers who have been making movies for three decades. Their films have been showcased at international festivals, and they’ve won numerous awards.
2015
The New Yorker on Every Fold Matters
The piece, created by the playwright and director Lizzie Olesker and the filmmaker Lynne Sachs, highlights the perspective of laundry workers. It’s playing for three nights at a Brooklyn laundromat, performed by the singer and actress Jasmine Holloway, the actress and dancer Veraalba Santa, and the actors Ching Valdes-Aran and Tony Torn.
2015
The Brooklyn Rail: “Laundromat-Theater: Where Every Fold Matters”
The legacy of domestic work, the issues surrounding power, and the exchange of money for services are all potent themes which rise to the surface and bubble over in dramatic, thrilling escalations of the everyday. A laundromat is a public space where something private occurs; it is the opposite of a typical theater, a private space in which a public event occurs. Nearly every element of Every Fold Matters pushes the boundaries of what is private and what is public, what is real and what is fiction, and where we find narrative fulfillment in any of the above.
2014
NYC high school students take part in #HandsUpWalkout – interview with parent Lynne Sachs
Posted 10:37 PM, December 1, 2014, by Ayana Harry NEW YORK (PIX11) – Students from several New York City High Schools walked out of their classrooms Monday afternoon at 1:01 p.m. They joined a national demonstration called #HandsUpWalkout, a protest over the shooting death of Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown. Dozens of teenagers left […]
2014
That’s Shanghai Magazine interviews Lynne Sachs
INTERVIEW: Experimental documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs 16 Dec 2014 by Tamia Tang Link to “That’s Shanghai”: http://online.thatsmags.com/post/interview-experimental-documentary-filmmaker-lynne-sachs Image above: “What Happened in the Dragon Year?” by Xun Sun, mural painting displayed in Shanghai Biennale 2014. Award-winning American experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs recently visited Shanghai for the Second China Women’s Film Festival with her latest offering Your […]
2014
Documentary on 2nd China Women’s Film Festival 2014
Here is a wonderful half-hour documentary on women and film in China and the China Women’s Film Festival which took place Nov. 21 – 30, 2014 in Beijing and Shanghai. I was honored to spend nine days as an invited director and participant. During this time, I screened three of my films “The House of […]
2014
Chicago’s Cine-File Reviews Your Day is My Night
It’s far from a straightforward documentary, but much of what makes it so experimental actually happened off-screen; in 2011, after first learning about “hot bed houses” from a family member, Sachs decided to collaborate with her cast rather than merely film them recounting their stories.
2014
Lynne Sachs: Disarming Drift by J. Ronald Green in Millennium Film Journal #60
I have found several of Lynne Sachs’s films unusually disarming.
2014
Asian American Life TV features Your Day is My Night in Focus on Chinatown Shiftbeds
Asian American Life’s Minnie Roh brings us to Chinatown, to a community of undocumented immigrants hidden from view who live in a form of housing known as “shiftbeds.” Featuring excerpts form Your Day is My Night with a special focus on our beloved wedding singer Yun Xiu Huang. An interview with director Lynne Sachs is also […]
