‘SWERVE’: NYC performers wax poetic in a new film shot in Elmhurst / Queens News Service
One of Queens’ most diverse neighborhoods became the real-life setting for a new boundary-crushing film by director Lynne Sachs.
June 23, 2022
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June 21, 2022
Cine Poetics screenings + “Sanctuary & Apocalypse” Summer Writing Program / Naropa Institute
As Benjamin writes in the eighth thesis on history: “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule.” So our apocalypse is in part a refusal, a refusal to be amazed, and stupefied, to be mystified while the forces of reaction extract, exploit, and profit.
June 20, 2022
A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture / Minizoom Lynne Sachs: Short film curated selection
Lynne Sachs is an American filmmaker and poet who focuses on documentary and short experimental films, film essays and live performances.
June 18, 2022
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.”
June 17, 2022
Ep 722: Lynne Sachs & Paolo Javier on ‘Swerve’ • Rebeca Huntt / Filmwax Radio
The experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs returns to Fimwax to discuss her latest work, “Swerve” which screens at BAMcinemaFest this month. She’s joined by poet Paolo Javier.
June 17, 2022
Interview with Lynne Sachs / Costa Rica International Film Festival, Lynne Sachs Retrospective
The American filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs was honored by the tenth edition of the Costa Rica International Film Festival. 10CRFIC paid tribute to Sachs in a retrospective on her work featuring 14 of her films.
June 15, 2022
Three films from Craig Baldwin Archive donated to Costa Rica Film Archive by Lynne Sachs
The three donated prints were from 1965, 1976, and 1981.
June 15, 2022
Costa Rica International Film Festival: Opening the Family Album – A workshop with Lynne Sachs
This workshop is inspired by the work of Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, whose writing explores family relationships during the Fascist years and World War II. Ginzburg was a prescient artist who enjoyed mixing up conventional distinctions between fiction and non-fiction: “Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt compelled at once to destroy it. The places, events, and people are all real.”
June 15, 2022
A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture / Minizoom Lynne Sachs: Film About A Father Who
For Minizoom Lynne Sachs, we are organizing two screenings, the first of which is the feature documentary Film About A Father Who.
June 9, 2022
“Thought, Word, Image: Introduction to Lynne Sachs Retrospective” / Costa Rica International Film Festival
There are films that seem small but on screen they expand until we are overwhelmed. That is what happens with the images and words that Lynne Sachs pieces together…