“A Month of Single Frames” will play at Headroom + Vertical Cinema at the University of Iowa with a program of films by/ with/ for Barbara Hammer. This program was curated by Deborah Stratman.
The cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame, yet privately ensconced in secrets. As facts mount, she discovers more about her father than she had hoped to reveal.
“It takes undeniable courage to discover and reveal shocking truths about one’s family,” said Slamdance festival manager Alina Solodnikova.
Denis Cooper lists Year by Year as a poetry recommendation.
An evening of poetry at the Court Tree Collective (Brooklyn, NY).
With one poem for each year from 1961 to 2011, the collection began as a half-century marker in Sachs’ life, reflecting on history and memory.
BBC Culture polled film experts around the world for their favourite films directed by women.
When you don’t know what to write, return full circle to what you’ve already written and begin to experiment and play.
In this workshop, Sachs will be in open dialogue regarding her film “Tip of My Tongue” (80 min. 2017), which accentuates the poetry and essay film within its structure.
Screening of “Tip of My Tongue” at the Film and Video Poetry Symposium
