REVIEW: SWERVE (SHORT FILM, 2022) / Movie-Blogger.com
In a world—all the more compounded by the global pandemic—where people still repress their self-expression for fear of ridicule, “Swerve” gets its message across loud and clear.
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Lynne Sachs reads EDEN by Robert Frede Kenter / Rare Swan Press
While Eden may at first appear as an image book, to be devoured with the eyes with the freedom of a journey without plan, engaging with the book in this way will cause you to miss its immersive, linear construction of meaning.
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BAMcinemafest 2022 Interview: Lynne Sachs and Paolo Javier on Crafting a Clever Turn of Phrase with “Swerve” / The Moveable Fest
With “Swerve” making its world premiere this weekend at the BAMCinemaFest, Sachs and Javier graciously reteamed to talk about emerging from the pandemic to shoot the eight-minute short and turning verbal poetry into a cinematic language while making other choices about what to translate and what not to.
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Short Redhead Reel Reviews for the week of June 24 – ‘Swerve’ / Sun This Week
Lynne Sachs’ intriguing, original, arty, well-written, 8-minute film in which performers Emmy Catedral, Ray Ferreira, Inney Prakash, Jeff Preiss, and Juliana Sass recite Paolo Javier’s Original Brown Boy poems…
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New Lynne Sachs Short “Swerve” Debuts at BAMcinemaFest / Mystery Catalog
“Swerve,” a new short film by experimental and documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs will debut this Sunday, June 26 as part of a second program of shorts at BAMcinemaFest in Brooklyn.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
