“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.
January 28, 2019
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January 24, 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.
December 2, 2018
Berrigan Forum at Fordham presents “Investigation of a Flame”
In December, 2018, I screened INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME with artist Darius Clark Monroe who showed his film BLACK FOURTEEN as part of the Berrigan Forum (named for the the brave and inimitable DANIEL BERRIGAN, peace activist and poet) at Fordham University.
November 17, 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.
November 7, 2018
National Civil Rights Museum screens The Washing Society
“The Washing Society” screens at Indie Memphis and the National Civil Rights Museum with “I am Somebody”.
November 5, 2018
The Washing Society wins Departures Audience Award at Indie Memphis
The Washing Society wins the Audience Award in the “Departures” (Experimental, Hybrid, Alternative) Category at Indie Memphis.
October 27, 2018
Women’s Work: Sachs, Olesker, Hammer & Deren at Other Cinema, San Francisco
We’re tickled pink to welcome back prodigal daughter Lynne Sachs, here with Lizzie Olesker to anchor a program on women’s labor, both manual and intellectual.
October 24, 2018
The Washing Society Screens at Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Through creative juxtapositions of narrative and documentary elements, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and playwright Lizzie Olesker chronicle the disappearing public space of the neighborhood laundromat and the continual, intimate labor that happens there.
October 22, 2018
Stuart Klawens writes in The Nation on Investigation of a Flame at Metrograph
“The Metrograph is showing ….. Lynne Sachs’s almost tactile resurrection of the resistance to the Vietnam War, Investigation of a Flame.
October 18, 2018
Tip of My Tongue screens in The Poetic is Political at Film-Makers Cooperative
With the Midterm Election approaching, Devon Narin-Singh put together this program to explore a different way of political filmmaking. Each of the films in this program use a personal poetic expression as a jumping off point to explore larger political issues. Produce in the aftermath of Drumpf’s Election, each of these films advocate for the need for artistic expression and joyous ways of rebelling.
