Year By Year Poems (2019)
When filmmaker Lynne Sachs turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for every year of her life, so far.
2019
WRITING
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
World Records Journal presents “English is Spoken Here/ English is Broken Here”
Let us begin with the statement “English is spoken here.” I’ve been thinking about what the implications of this pronouncement might be in terms of an anchoring of a singular language and the drowning of others.
2019
“Damn Prescient: Ruminations on the Work of Bruce Baillie”
My first viewing of Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964) sent a shiver through my body and mind that ricochets to this very day.
2019
Thoughts on Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas died yesterday, but with this close to a full, feisty and mostly extraordinarily fun life, he leaves us all with so much. From an early age, Jonas came to understand that living the life of an artist to the very fullest meant that you were expected to create something that would last beyond your last breath. Before anyone was really using the word “community”, Jonas was building a formidable infrastructure that would be the very foundation for the survival of the personal cinema he loved so dearly.
2018
Day Residue: A Hybrid Media & Performance Workshop at Hunter College MFA in Integrated Media Arts
Hunter CollegeIntegrated Media Arts MFANovember 2018 Workshop Leader: Lynne Sachs Technical Assistant & Video Documentation: Lingyun Zheng Imagine a person who lived in the same room where you live now anytime between 1968 and the day you moved in. The person has some of the same qualities you have but is also quite different. Shoot […]
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.
2018
Film Wax Interview with Lynne and Cast of Tip of My Tongue
In this Filmwax podcast discussion, we re-unite 4 of the 12 people from that unforgettable weekend a few summers back during the shooting for “Tip of My Tongue”, including myself, Accra Shepp, Andrea Kannapell and Lynne.
2018
“On Writing the Film Essay” by Lynne Sachs
I feel a closeness to writers, poets and painters, much more than to traditional film directors. For one thing, we ciné experimenters are not bound by the plot-driven mechanics of cause and effect that, for me, often bring the transcendent experience of watching a movie to a grinding halt.
2018
9th Experimental Lecture: Art(core) and the Explicit Body: The Films of MM Serra
Since 2008, the Experimental Lecture Series has presented veteran filmmakers who immerse themselves in the world of alternative, experimental film. Our intention is to lay bare an artist’s challenges rather than their successes, to examine the gnawing, ecstatic reality of the work of making art.
