National Civil Rights Museum screens The Washing Society
“The Washing Society” screens at Indie Memphis and the National Civil Rights Museum with “I am Somebody”.
2018
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2018
The Washing Society wins Departures Audience Award at Indie Memphis
The Washing Society wins the Audience Award in the “Departures” (Experimental, Hybrid, Alternative) Category at Indie Memphis.
2018
Women’s Work: Sachs, Olesker, Hammer & Deren at Other Cinema, San Francisco
We’re tickled pink to welcome back prodigal daughter Lynne Sachs, here with Lizzie Olesker to anchor a program on women’s labor, both manual and intellectual.
2018
The Washing Society Screens at Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Through creative juxtapositions of narrative and documentary elements, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and playwright Lizzie Olesker chronicle the disappearing public space of the neighborhood laundromat and the continual, intimate labor that happens there.
2018
Stuart Klawens writes in The Nation on Investigation of a Flame at Metrograph
“The Metrograph is showing ….. Lynne Sachs’s almost tactile resurrection of the resistance to the Vietnam War, Investigation of a Flame.
2018
Tip of My Tongue screens in The Poetic is Political at Film-Makers Cooperative
With the Midterm Election approaching, Devon Narin-Singh put together this program to explore a different way of political filmmaking. Each of the films in this program use a personal poetic expression as a jumping off point to explore larger political issues. Produce in the aftermath of Drumpf’s Election, each of these films advocate for the need for artistic expression and joyous ways of rebelling.
2018
Film Wax Interview with Lynne and Cast of Tip of My Tongue
In this Filmwax podcast discussion, we re-unite 4 of the 12 people from that unforgettable weekend a few summers back during the shooting for “Tip of My Tongue”, including myself, Accra Shepp, Andrea Kannapell and Lynne.
2018
Vancouver’s The Georgia Straight on “The Washing Society”
“When Capitalism Sets the World on Fire: Vancouver International Film Festival takes a sobering look at today’s economic reality with a handful of powerful docs.”
2018
Vancouver Film Festival director Alan Franey writes on The Washing Society
Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs’ film is a creative, often lyrical study of laundromat service workers in New York City – women who do a hard job for far too little money. Using a mixture of actors and real industry workers, the directors create a portrait of economic oppression and human resilience that provokes dismay and empathy in equal measure – and yet the hard dose of reality is leavened with poetic visual touches and a warm, humanist tone.
2018
Bringing the Invisible to Light – Jewish Independent Reviews The Washing Society
Faced with the challenge of making a documentary for which the voices of undocumented immigrants were crucial, filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker had to push the boundaries of convention. The result is The Washing Society, which will see its Canadian première at the Vancouver International Film Festival, as part of the festival’s Impact programming.
