28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month / Black Film Archive by Maya S. Cade
This guide contains 28 selections from Black Film Archive. They are simply a place to start or rediscover gems, to find yourself in or retreat to.
2023
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2023
Frames and Stanzas: Video Poems / The Flowchart Foundation
“Lynne’s virtual workshop will include the screening of some of her own recent short film poems, including “Starfish Aorta Colossus” and “Swerve” (2015, 2022 made with poet Paolo Javier), “A Month of Single Frames” (2019)…”
2023
Lecture: “Celebrating Maria Lassnig on Film” / MFA Boston
Maria Lassnig may be known best for her paintings, but the artist was also a pioneer in the world of film. Lassnig’s work often focused on themes of autobiography, friendship, New York City, and, perhaps most ambitiously, physical sensation.
2023
“The Art of Curation: In Celebration of Canyon Cinema Discovered” by Lynne Sachs
My engagement with Canyon Cinema started when I was a young filmmaker living in San Francisco in the mid 1980s.
2022
A Snapshot of 2022: “Still Processing” Grief Via The Criterion Channel / The Memory Tourist
With nothing more than a clockwise twirl, Sachs captures Maya’s life at 6, 16, and 24.
2022
Best of DAFilms 2022: “Film About a Father Who” / DAFilms.com
Earlier in the year, we presented Tender Non-Fictions, a program of films by experimental documentarian Lynne Sachs, who has been prolifically creating works for cinema for four decades.
2022
“Crises of Language and Difference” by Liz Kotz / AFTERIMAGE (1989)
“The thirty-fifth annual Robert Flaherty Seminar, help this August in upstate New York, proved a case in point. With this year’s focus on work by “third world and minority film and video artists,” programmed by Pearl Bower of African Diaspora Images, excitement and expectations were high.”
2022
Lynne Sachs: A Poet’s Perspective / Gene Siskel Film Center – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Film Center, in collaboration with Conversations at the Edge and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation program, is honored to welcome Sachs to the Film Center in person for two evenings of her work
2022
Queer Filters: Legacies and Artifacts / Festival International du Film d’Amiens (FIFAM)
“Barbara Hammer, famous lesbian experimental filmmaker, begins her own dying process by revisiting her personal archives.”
2022
Frames & Stanzas: A Film + Poetry Workshop w/ Lynne Sachs / Centre Film Festival
For thirty seconds, look at but try not to read the front page of any newspaper you can find in your home or on-line.
