Ten-Ish
Publication by Susan Saligner
02/19/2021
https://www.ten-ish.com/tenish-home/lynne-sachs
“Lynne Sachs has always eluded easy labeling…. She focuses on capturing gestures, inches of skin, fragments of conversations, casual moments in time, personal memorabilia, and weaving them into unexpected patterns….. (She) sublimes the personal into the theatrical …. (and) embraces variegated renditions of filmic language, recording the world, digesting it, and offering it to viewers in its performative beauty.” How Lynne Sachs Turns Spoken Language into Cinematic Language – A retrospective of the feminist artist and filmmaker demonstrates how she explores communication in her work. Hyperallergic, 2020.
My Body, Your Body, Our Bodies: Somatic Cinema at Home and in the World by Lynne Sachs
www.yearbyyearpoems.com
www.tenderbuttonspress.com
When filmmaker Lynne Sachs turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for every year of her life, so far. Each of the fifty poems investigates the relationship between a singular event in Sachs’ life and the swirl of events beyond her domestic universe. Published by Tender Buttons Press, Year by Year Poems juxtaposes Sachs’ finished poems, which move from her birth in 1961 to her half-century marker in 2011, with her original handwritten first drafts. In this way, she reveals her process of navigating within and alongside historical events such as the Moon Landing, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., streaking, the Anita Hill hearings, the Columbine shootings, and controversies around universal health care. In Year by Year Poems, Lynne Sachs realizes the long anticipated leap from her extraordinary career in filmmaking to this, her first book of poems.
About Ten-Ish
This site came about during a conversation with lifelong friend, artist, and collaborator Jack Waters. We were discussing ways in which organizations and funders access artists and their work and why some work is promoted and others get scant recognition. My son said, “who needs another platform?”… so here it is.
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