Interview with Lynne Sachs in Spain
Here is an interview I did in Pamplona, Spain during the Punta de Vista Film Festival.
Here is an interview I did in Pamplona, Spain during the Punta de Vista Film Festival.
NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department present the 3rd Annual Experimental Lecture.
A filmmaker who started work in the second half of the Eighties, Lynne Sachs effortlessly saunters between film, video, the internet and gallery installations. Principally concerned with the involvement of individuals in History, Lynne Sachs’ films often adopt the film essay form to explore the interrelationship between collective and subjective memory. Her films mix the most experimental and poetic of approaches with live recording, archive material and a range of narrative sources, all with the same air of ease.
Lynne Sachs worked for a year with Chris Marker, her friend of more than twenty years, on rewriting and researching for a new English version of “Three Cheers for the Whale”, a 1970’s collage film on whales.
Experimental documentary maker Lynne Sachs, new member of Punto De Vista 2010 International Jury
Pamplona (Spain), from 5th to 13th February 2010
The documentary maker Lynne Sachs will join the other four members of the Punto de Vista 2010 International Jury, namely, Alisa Lebow, Santos Zunzunegui, Jean-Pierre Rehm, and Maria Pallier.
In conversation with Classics Professor Michèle Lowrie (who acted as an adviser on the film), Sachs will discuss her cinematic process for making this portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society and ran.
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My husband Mark and I talk about the things we care about in the realm of cinema.
Among the 60 or so titles on offer are new works by Leslie Thornton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Harun Farocki, Michael Snow, Peggy Ahwesh, Lewis Klahr, Ken Jacobs, Lynne Sachs, Ernie Gehr and other giants of the avant-garde, as well as a generous selection of films by emerging artists.
In “Cuadro por cuadro”, Lynne Sachs and Mark Street put on a workshop (taller in Spanish) with a group of Uruguan media artists to create handpainted experimental films in the spirit of Stan Brakhage. Sachs and Street collaborate with their students at the Fundacion de Arte Contemporaneo by painting on 16 and 35 mm film, then bleaching it and then hanging it to dry on the roof of the artists’ collective in Montevideo in July, 2009.