Lynne Sachs’ “Film Strip Tease” / Hoosac Institute
“Strip it all down and get into the raw material. Let me share with you the images I’ve excavated from this archaeological hollow.”
2022
ARTICLES
2021
Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar- Published, feat. Lynne Sachs
Flash Flaherty,the much-anticipated follow-up volume to The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, offers a people’shistory of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an annual event where participants confront and reimagine the creative process surrounding multiple document/documentary forms and modes of the moving image.
2020
Il Manifesto: Lynne Sachs, a dialogue of images to question our certainties
Lynne Sachs discusses her work and process with Italian newspaper, Il Maifesto.
2020
Women & Hollywood: “Collaboration Taught Me Different Ways of Making Films and Seeing the World” by Lynne Sachs
As women in the director’s chair or anywhere else on a set, we should celebrate the bonds we build together behind the camera.
2020
In Celebration of the Darkness: What Can Happen When the Lights Are Out
I would make a few films that allowed me to “open the door” on a person, group of people or place that I knew little about in order to develop a deeper understanding through my filmmaking. Then, I would turn the camera back on myself and my immediate surroundings to produce more personal, introspective films.
2020
Grasshopper Film – Single Take: Lynne Sachs on Jean-Luc Godard
As much I call myself a cinéphile, there are certain times in my filmmaking process — be it the production or post-production phase — when I try not to watch anything that is not going to help me strategize on how to solve a particular obstacle in front of me.
2019
World Records Journal presents “English is Spoken Here/ English is Broken Here”
Let us begin with the statement “English is spoken here.” I’ve been thinking about what the implications of this pronouncement might be in terms of an anchoring of a singular language and the drowning of others.
2019
“Damn Prescient: Ruminations on the Work of Bruce Baillie”
My first viewing of Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964) sent a shiver through my body and mind that ricochets to this very day.
2019
Thoughts on Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas died yesterday, but with this close to a full, feisty and mostly extraordinarily fun life, he leaves us all with so much. From an early age, Jonas came to understand that living the life of an artist to the very fullest meant that you were expected to create something that would last beyond your last breath. Before anyone was really using the word “community”, Jonas was building a formidable infrastructure that would be the very foundation for the survival of the personal cinema he loved so dearly.
2018
BBC Talking Movies talks to Barbara Hammer & Lynne Sachs about Maya Deren
BBC Talking Pictures host Tom Brooks interviews Barbara Hammer and Lynne Sachs on the work of Maya Deren.
