“At Home in the Night” – A Film by Lynne Sachs and Mark Street
A short film created with Mark Street for Punto de Vista Film Festival (Pamplona, Spain).
A short film created with Mark Street for Punto de Vista Film Festival (Pamplona, Spain).
I spent a morning this winter in Central Park shooting film in the snow.
In the spirit of the RIDE (Risk/Dare/Experiment) series, Sachs and a small group of Pratt students will present Extra Long Twin, their original 15-minute live film-performance as a finale to the program. Expanding upon the theme of the bed in Sachs’ film Your Day Is My Night , Pratt art students will utilize the bed as a starting point for inquiry into the personal and collective experience of living in a New York City apartment or dormitory.
In 2001, I photographed her at six years old, spinning like a top around me. Even then, I realized that her childhood was not something I could grasp but rather – like the wind – something I could feel tenderly brushing across my cheek.
In Your Day is My Night, my collective of Chinese living in New York City explores the history and meaning of “shiftbeds” through verité conversations, character-driven fictions and integrated movement pieces.