4th Annual Experimental Lecture: Parler Femme – Peggy Ahwesh
NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department present the 4th Annual Experimental Lecture.
August 18, 2013
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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.
May 29, 2013
Your Day is My Night wins best Narrative Feature at Workers Unite! Film Fest
Your Day is My Night screens as part of the closing night program at the Workers Unite! Film Festival
May 9, 2013
The Catonsville Nine Panel – Lynne Sachs presents “Investigation of a Flame”
In May of 1968, nine individuals shook the conscience of the nation as they burned U.S. Selective Service records with home-made napalm on the grounds of the Catonsville, Maryland Knights of Columbus hall. The fire they started erupted into an infamous trial where the nine were defended by William Kuntsler. The news spread throughout the country, influencing other similar dynamic actions in every major U.S. city. Two of the original members of the Nine will be on hand to talk about their experiences – about how they met and their stand against U.S. militarization in Latin America. We will also be joined by two scholars who will help us connect this story with the larger context of Vietnam War era protests.
March 15, 2013
Things that Quicken the Heart: Symposium on Chris Marker at U Penn
In 1986, filmmaker Lynne Sachs saw Chris Marker’s “Sans Soleil”. Soon after, she wrote Marker a fan letter along with a personal interpretation of the film to which he surprisingly responded. They soon met, marking the beginning of a twenty-five-year friendship that culminated in 2007 when Sachs assisted Marker on one of his projects. In her presentation, Sachs will explore their shared interest in the film portrait. The talk will examine “pieces” by both Marker and Sachs and the ways in which each artist combines cinematic fragments to document the complexities of real people’s lives.
February 11, 2013
World premiere: Your Day is My Night at MoMA 2/24 & 2/25
In this provocative, hybrid documentary, the audience joins a present-day household of immigrants living together in a shift-bed apartment in the heart of Chinatown. Seven characters (ages 58-78) play themselves through autobiographical monologues, verité conversations, and theatrical movement pieces.
February 2, 2013
The Experimental Documentary: Reality and Performance with Lynne Sachs
New York experimental documentary director Lynne Sachs got her start in film at DCTV in the mid 1980s. Over the last three decades, she’s explored the relationship between her own personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together film, collage, painting, and sound design.
