Every Fold Matters
EVERY FOLD MATTERS is a collaborative, site-specific performance with film about the work of doing laundry by playwright/director Lizzie Olesker and experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs.
2015
MULTIMEDIA
2014
5th Annual Experimental Lecture: Carolee Schneemann: Where Did I Make The Wrong Turn?
NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department present the 5th Annual Experimental Lecture.
2014
2014 International Festival of Documentary Cinema: Encounter with Other Cinema presents Scenic Ruptures
Ten New York City artists ranging in age from 24 to 80 bring their personal impressions of the place they call home to Quito’s EDOCS screen. Curated by Lynne Sachs.
2014
“Extra Long Twin” film performance premieres in Pratt’s RiDE Series
In the spirit of the RIDE (Risk/Dare/Experiment) series, Sachs and a small group of Pratt students will present Extra Long Twin, their original 15-minute live film-performance as a finale to the program. Expanding upon the theme of the bed in Sachs’ film Your Day Is My Night , Pratt art students will utilize the bed as a starting point for inquiry into the personal and collective experience of living in a New York City apartment or dormitory.
2014
WE LANDED/I WAS BORN/PASSING BY: NEW YORK’S CHINATOWN ON SCREEN
Whether you see Chinatown as a place or a state of mind, a purgatory or an oasis, a shrinking immigrant community or an expanding business district, its presence in our cinematic imagination is enormous.
2013
4th Annual Experimental Lecture: Parler Femme – Peggy Ahwesh
NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department present the 4th Annual Experimental Lecture.
2013
Your Day is My Night
In Your Day is My Night, my collective of Chinese living in New York City explores the history and meaning of “shiftbeds” through verité conversations, character-driven fictions and integrated movement pieces.
2012
Your Day is My Night: Live Film Performance
In “Your Day is My Night” a group of Chinese performers creates a dynamic live film performance that tells the collective story of Chinese immigration to New York City from the viewpoint of an older generation. On both stage and screen, the seven performers play themselves, all living together in a shift-bed apartment in the heart of Chinatown.
