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Sister’s Pictures: Hand Book Sneak Peak / Other Cinema

SISTERS’ PICTURES

NOV.8: SACHS’ SNEAK-PEEK/BOOK-LAUNCH + QUILLIAN +

We are oh-so-lucky to host the most lovely presence of thee queen of contemporary film-essay, Lynne Sachs! Returning to the site of her very earliest retrospective, Lynne blesses the first section of our semi-annual SisPix with an hour of her engaged oeuvre: Beginning with a brief reading from her Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry, and Lizzie Olesker‘s Handbook: Labor of Laundry–even another perfect-bound bundle of Lynne’s image-text brilliance–she proceeds with The Washing Society cine-excerpt that best complements that new release, then clothes-pins her abortion-rights-ritual short Contractions to our riveted line-of-sight, and closes her Artist’s Talk with a few choice chapters from her forthcoming feature, Every Contact Leaves a Trace. Tonight’s second set of women’s work is constituted by a quintet of feminist films that parlay personal insights into the public sphere: Shapeshifter Kathleen Quillian‘s Wildflower Season considers her daughters’ comings-of-age, Virginia‘s Sasha Waters‘ Fragile picks up the thread, correlating a parallel trajectory into one’s middle-age, Sacramento State‘s Jenny Stark spatializes the metaphor with her Where Your Road Ends, Mine Begins, Caribbean-based Karla Betancourt‘s NewIndigo Wave extols the organic plant-based inks of Oaxaca, Mexico, and East Bay artiste Kate Dollemeyer‘s 16mm Cycladic Thermometer imagines female figurines from ancient Greece as possible agents for healing the wounds of the world. $12

Hand Book: A Manual Reading and Performance at Unnameable Books

We will be having our first bookstore event for Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry at the wonderful UNNAMEABLE BOOKS in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn on Monday, September 8 at 7PM. 

September 8th, 7 – 8:30 PM

Unnameable Books

Reading and performance with special guests Silvia Federici and Veraalba Santa

615 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn 

Please join us in the bookstore’s inimitable outdoor space for our reading. We’ve invited feminist historian Silvia Federici, who wrote our foreword, and dancer Veraalba Santa who collaborated with us on our performance Every Fold Matters and film The Washing Society to join us on this special evening. You may remember Vera dancing on top of the laundromat’s machines!

Hand Book: A Manual is a collection of writings and images derived from our film and performance project which looked at the neighborhood laundromat as a microcosm of service work within our city.  With a focus on the people who are paid to wash and fold, Hand Book: A Manual explores the convergence of dirt, stains, money, identity, and desire.