An Argentine excursion: film frames, talk therapy, and ice cream.
By Mark Street and Lynne Sachs (with Pablo Marin)
http://www.gonzocircus.com/blog/?page_id=693
Our cinematic relationship to Argentina began in March of 2007, when the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI) invited Lynne to show a retrospective of her films. During the one week she was in this film-crazy [...]
May 16, 2008 Brooklyn, New York
Tonight I finished reading Julio Cortazar’s short story “Final del Juego”. Since I will be spending the summer in Buenos Aires in a few months, I am trying to get a feeling for the city and for the people. As a mother of two 13 and 11 year-old girls (Maya [...]
Senses of Buenos Aires
a few things about the city that I love
by Lynne Sachs
Confiteria Ideal
In my opinion, this is the most wonderful place to see tango. Real people doing the dance of Argentina with a kind of love and commitment that that will make you want to get on the floor yourself. Mystical, misty old [...]
Bruce Conner died in the summer of 2008. For those who may not know, he was a Beat generation artist, the first filmmaker to see the value in “found footage”, and an extraordinary visionary. His collages and films are in museums and archives all over the world. Two different people in Buenos Aires, where I was living last summer, mentioned his death to me without even knowing that I knew him. Bruce was a very important person in my life and psyche.
Anthropologists, filmmakers, linguists, musicians, painters, poets, writers — all share a fascination with the 26 letters of the alphabet. An abecedarium is traditionally an educational book for children containing words beginning with each letter, but for centuries it has also been a resource for creative work by artists in almost every media. This history of the abecedarium will look at a selection of artists whose intentions are both to celebrate and disrupt this most basic and widespread system of verbal communication.
Thinking about Richard Fung’s “Sea in the Blood”
By Lynne Sachs
Two men swimming, the flow of skin against the skin, and there below the surface of the water is a camera. Richard Fung’s lens is an activated observation machine, the eye gazing at the self. His memory becomes an animal in the pool – at once [...]
Visit to New Orleans
Grey afternoon everything carved away
gaunt woman in once-tight jeans
zig-zags patterns, boulevard desolate.
Archeological trash pile
not for garbage
collector.
Everything carved away.
Dogs no longer here.
Old kitten dangling thread, teasing between splinters
from a screen door stretching
blissful
open and shut
by the arm of the wind.
Woman again, more gaunt than five minutes ago,
watching me pretend not to watch her,
circles round [...]
STATES OF UNBELONGING a film by LYNNE SACHS
in collaboration with NIR ZATS
63 minutes
Hebrew spoken by children
“When I am big and someone dies, I am going to go to the funeral.”
“You can put a doll on the grave, just like in the story.’
Dear Lynne,
I patiently wait for the sand to sink, for the water to get [...]
From California to Florida to New York to Maryland to Tennessee, I’ve been making and teaching avant-garde film for 20 years. In my experience, there is only one film, of the many works to which I expose my college students, that consistently creates a passionate, call it vitriolic, reaction: Stan Brakhage’s “Window, Water, Baby, Moving”(1959, 12 min.).
Thoughts on Tran Kim Trang’s Decade with Blindness:
A Letter to Helene Cixous from Lynne Sachs
“I want to see what is secret. What is hidden amongst the visible. I want to see the skin of the light.”
from “Writing Blind: Conversation with the Donkey” in Stigmata by Helene Cixous
Dear Helene, …I begin by conveying to you the [...]
