Biography of Lilith – Screening, Workshop and Lecture by Lynne Sachs
In a lively mix of narrative, collage and memoir, A Biography of Lilith (35 min. 1997) updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman.
October 22, 2014
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September 17, 2014
5th Annual Experimental Lecture: Carolee Schneemann: Where Did I Make The Wrong Turn?
NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department present the 5th Annual Experimental Lecture.
September 10, 2014
BBC Talking Movies features Experimental Film in NYC
Post by BBC Talking Movies. The Filmmakers Co-op was profiled by the BBC Talking Movies program in September 2014. Great interviews with Gregg Biermann, Mary Magdalene Serra, and Ephraim Asili, Lynne Sachs as well as footage of Insha Fitzpatrick and films by Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, Jonas Mekas, and several others. With a special cameo […]
July 17, 2014
MIFF movie review: ‘Your Day is my Night’
Lynne Sachs has spent 25 years of her young life making films, installations and documentaries from Vietnam to Bosnia and all corners of the world. She is a master of the art and a gifted collector of the tiny moments of the human comedy and tragedy.
July 16, 2014
Critics Page: “The Thing is No More” by Lynne Sachs in The Brooklyn Rail
I like making things. Objects that are distinct, take up space, have weight and texture, can be given as gifts, are occasionally sold, contain the very story of their making in the material of their being. And so it is with a stubborn adolescent fury that I refuse to believe that the work I do as a filmmaker is being pushed so quickly and definitively from the three dimensional into the digital and ultimately to the virtual world.
April 16, 2014
Lynne Sachs receives 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video
The great variety of backgrounds, fields of study, and accomplishments of Guggenheim Fellows is one of the most unique characteristics of the Fellowship program.
March 24, 2014
“Extra Long Twin” film performance premieres in Pratt’s RiDE Series
In the spirit of the RIDE (Risk/Dare/Experiment) series, Sachs and a small group of Pratt students will present Extra Long Twin, their original 15-minute live film-performance as a finale to the program. Expanding upon the theme of the bed in Sachs’ film Your Day Is My Night , Pratt art students will utilize the bed as a starting point for inquiry into the personal and collective experience of living in a New York City apartment or dormitory.
March 21, 2014
Bomb Magazine Interview w/ Lynne Sachs by Poet Paolo Javier
Filmmaker Lynne Sachs and poet Paolo Javier on the dialogues between documentary and poetry, and politics and personal history.
February 6, 2014
Canyon Cinema Confessions spotlights Lynne Sachs
Canyon filmmaker Lynne Sachs. Sight & Sound has ranked her experimental documentary Your Day is My Night among the best films of the year, and the BBC has already declared it to be one of eight films to watch in 2014. Now is a great time to return to the Canyon catalog to […]
January 17, 2014
Sight & Sound Best Films of 2013 List
“It’s one of the most mysterious and magical evocations of the migrant city in many a year.”
