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.”
January 17, 2014
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January 17, 2014
BBC selects 8 Films to Watch in 2014
Eight films to watch in 2014
Published online on January 3rd, 2014 BBC Culture
By Tom Brook
“Director Lynne Sachs’ Your Day is My Night shines a light on a little documented sub-culture in New York’s Chinatown, chronicling immigrants who live communally in buildings where there’s a shift-bed system. One person returns from a stint of overnight work to sleep in a bed just vacated by another person off to their day job. The form of this documentary is as compelling as its content. It is a beautiful collage of different media and music intricately edited together with the often emotional testimony of the immigrants.”
December 13, 2013
“The Line Blurs:” Morals of Filmmaking
“Anything that happens in front of the camera is some kind of performance,” said experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs at the top of Tuesday’s “The Line Blurs: Shifting Narratives in Filmmaking” panel. Sachs, along with Caveh Zahedi, Josephine Decker, Keith Miller and moderator Nathan Silver, spent an hour debating the division between narrative and documentary forms at DCTV.
December 4, 2013
Jeanne Finley’s Introduction at Pacific Film Archive
Lynne describes her films as explorations of the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences.
November 19, 2013
Craig Baldwin & Other Cinema present “Chinatown Tales” in San Francisco
Prodigal daughter Sachs returns with a dramatic ethnography on a little-seen subculture: older residents of “shift-bed” apartments in New York’s Chinatown, where immigrants are jammed into shared rooms, beds in use around the clock.
November 18, 2013
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
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.