Day Residue
I spent a day with my mother and stepfather shooting Super 8mm film in my childhood home in Memphis, Tennessee.
July 27, 2016
CURRENT
July 14, 2016
Lynne Sachs in Between Film, Video, and the Digital Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age by Jihoon Kim
lntermedial Palimpsests in Lynne Sachs’s experimental documentary films
April 27, 2016
Cool Worlds and Sacred Pictures: Hurston, Clarke & Sachs
Ethnography is describing the Other. In the 1920s, writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston reacted to this established view with her own artistic and scholarly works on everyday cultures in her own home in America’s black south. Hurston political and poetic studies of “folk cultures” that were mostly disparaged at the time are an expression of unmitigated appreciation and a way of taking up a position within the debate on “high” and “low” art in Harlem between the wars.
April 27, 2016
Communal Filmmaking: Bruce Baillie’s Work Still Inspires
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.
April 13, 2016
The Essay Film: Students Contemplate States of UnBelonging by Lynne Sachs
I’m a graduate student in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. I’m enrolled in an essay film class this semester, and this week, I’m putting together a presentation on you and your film, States of Unbelonging.
March 21, 2016
Fandor presents: Lynne Sachs’ Seven Forms of Filmmaking
Video: Lynne Sachs’ Seven Forms of Filmmaking Seven Forms of Filmmaking: Lynne Sachs from Fandor Keyframe on Vimeo. By Joel Bocko March 19, 2016 All of Lynne Sachs‘ films blur the lines between avant-garde, documentary and narrative, but few employ as many different styles and mediums as States of Unbelonging. This essay film, as much […]
March 13, 2016
7th Annual Experimental Lecture: Ernie Gher: What Is an Unfinished Work?
NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department present the 7th Annual Experimental Lecture.
February 12, 2016
Time and Light : Gunvor Nelson’s Vision of Editing by Lynne Sachs
Gunvor Nelson was an extremely influential teacher of mine. Between 1985 and 1995 I lived in San Francisco and was deeply inspired and supported by other artists and curators in the Bay Area experimental film community including Trinh T. Minh-ha, Karen Holmes, Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz, Jeanne Finley, Craig Baldwin, and George Kuchar. It was in San Francisco that I met Mark Street my soulmate and collaborator. In 2015, I traveled to Sweden with Mark to visit and shoot film with Guvnor Nelson in her home studio, two decades after she had left the Bay Area.
October 29, 2015
Light + Sound Machine Presents… YES/NO: THE CINEMA OF LYNNE SACHS
Likely the most accomplished experimental filmmaker to come from Tennessee, Memphis-native Lynne Sachs’ 30-year career has produced some of the most mesmerizing, contemplative observations on culture and communication ever committed to celluloid (and sometimes digital video.)
October 29, 2015
Lynne Sachs visits Nashville’s Light & Sound Machine at Third Man Records
The Light and Sound Machine is at it again, bringing Nashvillians some of the most interesting experimental cinema, current and historical, screening anywhere in the Southeast. On Thursday, Sept. 17, L&SM welcomes veteran filmmaker Lynne Sachs for a program of works spanning her 30-year career, beginning with her first released film and ending with her latest.
