“The Art of Curation: In Celebration of Canyon Cinema Discovered” by Lynne Sachs / Canyon Cinema
My engagement with Canyon Cinema started when I was a young filmmaker living in San Francisco in the mid 1980s.
January 16, 2023
CURRENT
December 28, 2022
A Snapshot of 2022: “Still Processing” Grief Via The Criterion Channel / The Memory Tourist
With nothing more than a clockwise twirl, Sachs captures Maya’s life at 6, 16, and 24.
December 28, 2022
Best of DAFilms 2022: “Film About a Father Who” / DAFilms.com
Earlier in the year, we presented Tender Non-Fictions, a program of films by experimental documentarian Lynne Sachs, who has been prolifically creating works for cinema for four decades.
December 28, 2022
“Crises of Language and Difference” by Liz Kotz / AFTERIMAGE (1989)
“The thirty-fifth annual Robert Flaherty Seminar, help this August in upstate New York, proved a case in point. With this year’s focus on work by “third world and minority film and video artists,” programmed by Pearl Bower of African Diaspora Images, excitement and expectations were high.”
December 23, 2022
Lynne Sachs: A Poet’s Perspective / Gene Siskel Film Center – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Film Center, in collaboration with Conversations at the Edge and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation program, is honored to welcome Sachs to the Film Center in person for two evenings of her work
November 11, 2022
Queer Filters: Legacies and Artifacts / Festival International du Film d’Amiens (FIFAM)
“Barbara Hammer, famous lesbian experimental filmmaker, begins her own dying process by revisiting her personal archives.”
November 2, 2022
Frames & Stanzas: A Film + Poetry Workshop w/ Lynne Sachs / Centre Film Festival
For thirty seconds, look at but try not to read the front page of any newspaper you can find in your home or on-line.
October 31, 2022
Meet Our Guests 2022 / Centre Film Festival
The Centre Film Festival is a grass-roots organization founded to bring multigenerational stories to the screen and to create a platform for storytelling and dialogue.
October 29, 2022
“They’ve got catfish on the table” / Keeping Up — Substack by Ashley Clark
We handed out three awards: short film to Maya at 24 by Lynne Sachs, mid-length film to Civic by Dwayne LeBlanc, and feature film to Cette Maison (This House) by Miryam Charles.
October 28, 2022
Mark Alice Durant Presents “Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera” with Lynne Sachs, David Levi Strauss, and Laura Valenza / McNally Jackson Books
Based on years of research, interviews with some of Deren’s closest collaborators, and generously illustrated with film stills and photographs, author Mark Alice Durant creates a vivid and accessible narrative exploring the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of this remarkable and charismatic artist.
