Women & Hollywood: “Collaboration Taught Me Different Ways of Making Films and Seeing the World” by Lynne Sachs
As women in the director’s chair or anywhere else on a set, we should celebrate the bonds we build together behind the camera.
2020
WRITING
2020
Greenlight Bookstore: An Evening with Tender Buttons Press
To celebrate the press’s 30th birthday and the publication of the new Tender Omnibus collection, Greenlight hosts a night of reading and conversation featuring three Tender Buttons poets.
2020
In Celebration of the Darkness: What Can Happen When the Lights Are Out
I would make a few films that allowed me to “open the door” on a person, group of people or place that I knew little about in order to develop a deeper understanding through my filmmaking. Then, I would turn the camera back on myself and my immediate surroundings to produce more personal, introspective films.
2020
Grasshopper Film – Single Take: Lynne Sachs on Jean-Luc Godard
As much I call myself a cinéphile, there are certain times in my filmmaking process — be it the production or post-production phase — when I try not to watch anything that is not going to help me strategize on how to solve a particular obstacle in front of me.
2020
Cleaver Magazine – YEAR BY YEAR: Poems reviewed by Sharon Harrigan
“These poems are innovative but never intimidating or deliberately opaque. Instead, they invite us in, encouraging us to play along. They give us a structure to enter into our own retrospective lives, our own distillations of time, our own superimpositions of the newsworthy world onto our most intimate moments.” – Sharon Harrigan
2020
Burke’s Books – Reading and Book Signing of “Year by Year”
Join us at Burke’s Books for a reading and book signing with Lynne Sachs for her book of poetry, “Year by Year”
2020
“Year By Year: Poems” – San Francisco Public Library Staff Pick
Intimate and imagistic, the poems unfold a series of miniature stories with sensuous rhythms, telling visual detail, and gentle humor.
2019
Court Tree Collective – “Four Poets Gather to…”
An evening of poetry at the Court Tree Collective (Brooklyn, NY).
2019
Year by Year: Poems featured in “Fonts In Use”
With one poem for each year from 1961 to 2011, the collection began as a half-century marker in Sachs’ life, reflecting on history and memory.
2019
Poets & Writers: Lynne Sachs Recommends
When you don’t know what to write, return full circle to what you’ve already written and begin to experiment and play.
