This program, “Home” Movies, looks at films specifically about homes and the domestic sphere, and asks: how have filmmakers, throughout history, documented and examined homes and domestic spaces?
Breaking the Frame screens here with Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor (2018), a short, tripartite documentary profile of Schneemann and fellow artist-filmmakers Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson.
A pair of films from singular filmmaker Lynne Sachs investigating the connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself.
Film About A Father Who & Lynne Sachs Masterclass at MajorDocsMajorDocsSeptember 1, 2022Festival dates: October 4-8, 2022https://majordocs.org/festival/ PHILOSOPHY THE FIRST SLOW FILM FESTIVAL MajorDocs is the international creative documentary film festival in Mallorca; a space to discover other realities and other perspectives through carefully selected creative documentaries. In a time defined by the sheer excess of content, MajorDocs proposes a slow experience: a journey […]
It may seem old hat to say an experimental filmmaker’s career defies easy classification, but in the case of Lynne Sachs, it’s necessary.
Lynne Sachs explores the possibilities of a new creation myth in A Biography of Lilith through a mixture of collage, mythology, cabalistic parable, folklore, interviews, and memoir to provide a narrative of the first woman and, perhaps, the first feminist.
The 18th edition of the Camden Intl. Film Festival, kicking off Sept. 15, will feature a handful of award-contending documentaries fresh off showings at Telluride and the Toronto film festivals.
“[the film] tugs, pulls, apart, anew, and so we’re guided the maze, enlightened, by the strings of love.”
In the past decade, humans have developed completely new lives on the internet, a strange and sometimes terrifying facet of reality that cinema has struggled to evoke.
In “Swerve,” Sachs separates her depiction of the pandemic from other pandemic-related films by considering how our communication with one another shifted in isolation, presenting a new challenge when we went back to socializing.
