Otherzine Review of Experiments in Documentary Issue of Millennium Film Journal #51

[ March 1, 2010; 3:00 pm; ] How do you make a doc that’s not a doc? How do you make an experimental film that is not one? How and why do moving image experimenters and documentarians combine their genres? Howard Guttenplan’s Millennium Film Journal (Spring/Summer 2009, #51) deeply penetrates these questions and creative cross-fertilizations. Guest editors, Lucas Hilderbrand and Lynne Sachs have gathered innovators to fill 100 pages of insights. Jill Godmilow’s advice to abandon “truth claims, intimacy and satisfying forms” recalls genre-bending pioneer Luis Bunuel’s “I have always been on the side of those who seek the truth, but I part ways with them when they think they have found it.” Reading MFJ raises new questions. Richard Fung queries, “What kind of truths can be communicated better in documentary than in fiction – and vice versa?” This echoes Faulkner’s “Sometimes the best fiction is more true than journalism.” The essays provoke us to examine the motives and consequences of these media practitioners.

Lynne Sachs at Chicago Filmmakers

[ February 26, 2010; 3:00 pm; ] “TALES FROM SOUTH AMERICA”
Lynne Sachs @ Chicago Filmmakers 3/12/10

Interview with Lynne Sachs in Spain

[ February 24, 2010; 3:00 pm; ] Here is an interview I did in Pamplona, Spain during the Punta de Vista Film Festival.

Lynne Sachs presents three films in Pamplona, Spain

[ February 21, 2010; 2:00 pm; ] A filmmaker who started work in the second half of the Eighties, Lynne Sachs effortlessly saunters between film, video, the internet and gallery installations. Principally concerned with the involvement of individuals in History, Lynne Sachs’ films often adopt the film essay form to explore the interrelationship between collective and subjective memory. Her films mix the most experimental and poetic of approaches with live recording, archive material and a range of narrative sources, all with the same air of ease.

Sachs assists Chris Marker updating his 1970s Whale Film

[ January 13, 2010; 9:00 am; ] Lynne Sachs worked for a year with Chris Marker, her friend of more than twenty years, on rewriting and researching for a new English version of “Three Cheers for the Whale”, a 1970’s collage film on whales.

Experimental documentary maker Lynne Sachs, new member of Punto De Vista 2010 International Jury

[ December 24, 2009; 8:00 am; ] Experimental documentary maker Lynne Sachs, new member of Punto De Vista 2010 International Jury
Pamplona (Spain), from 5th to 13th February 2010
The documentary maker Lynne Sachs will join the other four members of the Punto de Vista 2010 International Jury, namely, Alisa Lebow, Santos Zunzunegui, Jean-Pierre Rehm, and Maria Pallier.

History of NYC reviews Abecedarium:NYC

[ December 12, 2009; 8:00 am; ] A HISTORY OF NEW YORK website describes Abecedarium:NYC: “A wonderful, continuously expanding site sponsored in part by New York Public Library: Abecedarium:NYC. The whole thing seems designed to lead you down the path of hours spent exploring. The perfect site for people who love words as much as they love New York.”

Lynne in the NYT’s for Views from the Avant-Garde

[ December 6, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Among the 60 or so titles on offer are new works by Leslie Thornton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Harun Farocki, Michael Snow, Peggy Ahwesh, Lewis Klahr, Ken Jacobs, Lynne Sachs, Ernie Gehr and other giants of the avant-garde, as well as a generous selection of films by emerging artists.

On camera interview with Lynne and Mark at Union Docs

[ October 26, 2009; 10:00 am; ] My husband Mark and I talk about the things we care about in the realm of cinema.

The Last Happy Day Premieres at NYFF

[ October 4, 2009; 3:00 pm; ]

Sunday, Oct. 4 at  3pm
Views from the Avant-Garde Program #8
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center
Tickets: $11;  $8 senior; $7 member, student, child

The Last Happy Day Lynne Sachs, USA, 2009, 38m
Nothing is Over Nothing
Jonathan Schwartz, USA, 2008, 17m
The Exception and the Rule
Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, U.K./India/Pakistan, 37m
TRT: 93m

For more information:
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/views.html

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