Court Tree Collective – “Four Poets Gather to…”
An evening of poetry at the Court Tree Collective (Brooklyn, NY).
2019
PRESS
2019
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.
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.
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.
2019
Maysles Documentary Center: A Public Dialogue, Screening & Poetry Workshop with filmmaker Lynne Sachs
In this workshop, Sachs will be in open dialogue regarding her film “Tip of My Tongue” (80 min. 2017), which accentuates the poetry and essay film within its structure.
2019
Lynne Sachs at 2019 The Film and Video Poetry Symposium
Screening of “Tip of My Tongue” at the Film and Video Poetry Symposium
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.
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.
2019
In Search of a ‘Feminist Sensibility’
These two shorts give us insight into seven women: Barbara Hammer, Maya Deren, Carolee Schneemann, and Gunvor Nelson as subjects and speakers; Lynne Sachs and Deborah Stratman from behind the camera. Watching both films, I wonder what connections there are to be drawn. Does the recent surge in filmic portraits of female trailblazers point towards a ‘feminine sensibility’, long overdue for historical recognition?
2018
BBC Talking Movies talks to Barbara Hammer & Lynne Sachs about Maya Deren
BBC Talking Pictures host Tom Brooks interviews Barbara Hammer and Lynne Sachs on the work of Maya Deren.
