The American filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs was honored by the tenth edition of the Costa Rica International Film Festival. 10CRFIC paid tribute to Sachs in a retrospective on her work featuring 14 of her films.
This workshop is inspired by the work of Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, whose writing explores family relationships during the Fascist years and World War II. Ginzburg was a prescient artist who enjoyed mixing up conventional distinctions between fiction and non-fiction: “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt compelled at once to destroy it. The places, events, and people are all real.”
Lynne Sachs (USA, 1961), is a filmmaker, poet and artist based in New York…She taught the workshop “Opening the family album” and a session was dedicated to her in the contemporary cinema program.
The director of “Film About a Father Who” will give this theoretical-practical workshop from May 24 to 26, and will present a monographic session of her work on May 25.
” I immediately confronted and embraced the life I’ve lead in the cosmos of the cinema, and more specifically my I.O.U, my gratitude, to that real for simply providing me with so much to think about and so much to record with my camera.”
Opening the Family Album is a two-hour workshop in which participants will explore the ways in which images of family members might become material for the making of a personal film.
“A workshop in which we will explore the ways in which images of our mother, father, sister, brother, cousin, grandfather, aunt or uncle can become material for the making of a personal film.”
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to engage with a wide variety of practitioners.
This personal essay articulates filmmaker Lynne Sachs’s experiences working with experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
An evening of poetry with J.E. O’Leary, Linda Kleinbub, Bruce E. Whitacre, Lynne Sachs, & Vikas K. Menon.
