Lynne Sachs at UC Santa Cruz, Dept of Film & Media
Sponsored by Film & Digital Media, Porter College, and Center for Documentary Arts and Research, University of California, Santa Cruz
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October 24, 2013
Surprise 16mm films at Speakeasy Cinema
n the future, we may all be personal filmmakers, making the kinds of films that fit few genres but truly express our innermost creative impulse. Lynne Sachs is just that filmmaker, and she’s this month’s guest at Speakeasy Cinema.
October 23, 2013
“Your Day Is My Night” Post-Screening Conversation at NYU
Filmmaker Lynne Sachs and performers Yi Chun Cao, Linda Y.H. Chan, Chung Qing Che, Ellen Ho, Yun Xiu Huang, and Sheut Hing Lee joined A/P/A Institute at NYU on Thursday, October 2, 2013 for a screening of the film and a conversation moderated by Karen Shimakawa (Chair of Performance Studies at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts). Lesley (Yiping) Qin served as translator.
September 26, 2013
Fact or Fiction? Neorealist Features and Hybrid Documentaries Blur the Line
The ground rules were set early on in the IFP Film Week panel “Neorealist Features & Hybrid Documentaries.” There was to be no talk about “business.” We were here to talk about art — the art of cinema and how to transcend categorization.
September 8, 2013
Interview with Lynne Sachs in The Brooklyn Rail – 2013
When the experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs taught avant-garde filmmaking at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992, few if any in our class had ever heard of the essayist Chris Marker, with whom she later collaborated on Three Cheers for the Whale, or Trinh T. Minh-ha, whose approach to filmmaking strongly influenced her own.
August 18, 2013
4th Annual Experimental Lecture: Parler Femme – Peggy Ahwesh
NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department present the 4th Annual Experimental Lecture.
July 14, 2013
Boston’s Arts Fuse reviews Your Day is My Night
On July 15, The DocYard series, running Monday nights at the Brattle Theatre, will host writer-director Lynne Sachs and her gorgeous, intimate look inside one very crowded New York Chinatown apartment, Your Day Is My Night.
July 6, 2013
Cultivora Reviews Your Day is My Night
Combining scripted performance with improvisation, Your Day is My Night becomes immediately difficult to classify. Is it a documentary?
June 14, 2013
Asian American Writers Workshop Interview with Lynne Sachs
When director Lynne Sachs first got the idea to make a film about shift-bed houses, she googled “hot-bed house” and got X-rated results. That was three years ago.
May 29, 2013
Shifting Lives: Photographing the Immigrant Experience in Chinatown
A couple of years ago, when I was just beginning the work on my most recent film Your Day is My Night, I happened to notice an astonishing photo essay by Annie Ling in the New York Times. Annie had spent a year taking a series of exquisite photographs of a group of residents living at 81 Bowery Street in Chinatown. It became clear to me that the work she was doing corresponded on multiple levels with my own film project on the shift-bed houses of Chinatown. I decided to contact Annie so we could talk about our shared interests.