Docs In Orbit – Masters Edition: In Conversation with Lynne Sachs
Welcome to another Masters Edition episode of Docs in Orbit, where we feature conversations with filmmakers who have made exceptional contributions to documentary film.
Welcome to another Masters Edition episode of Docs in Orbit, where we feature conversations with filmmakers who have made exceptional contributions to documentary film.
“…an indication of how richly resonant these poems are, with their skillful intermingling of private and public.” – John Bradley
“A Month of Single Frames” will play in the International Docs program at the 19th Annual DokuFest.
“The living planet has brought us back to earth. Dreamlike travels were, nonetheless, recorded. Self-reflections, Weltschmerz, philosophemes, midlife-crisis-ridden disaster-monologues, poems, revolutionary manifestos and other “insights” transformed into writing, drawing, and even film. “
“In addition to demonstrating possibilities for collaborative art-making, these works reflect a mode of sustained intimacy through a moment of unprecedented distance.”
After the initial lockdowns during the COVID-19 Pandemic, stillness is broken by the city’s movement in protest of George Floyd’s murder.
Lynne Sachs reads from July 30th’s entry of Bernadette Mayer’s book “Memory”.
“The lecture interrogates what it means for the camera to analyse the human body and what it means that the body that is in power when filming, the filmmaker’s, is entirely invisible.” – Sofie Cato Mass
“These are ideas that come out… in a dense mixture of text and image and voice.”
“Year by Year” reviewed in the Summer 2020 publication of Rain Taxi.