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.
When it was a reading series staged in laundromats around the country, The New Yorker described “Every Fold Matters” as a “collaborative, site-specific performance exploring the strange intimacy of the everyday ritual.” The series used performers to act out themes of gendered work, gentrification, and the intermittent weirdness of city life. Playwright and director Lizzie Olesker and filmmaker Lynne Sachs are reuniting to turn the live performance into a film. For Polarr, Emily von Hoffmann spoke with them to find out more.
“I have a group of films I’ve made called my Yes films and I have a group of films called my No films. The Yes films are films where absolutely anything goes… Then I have the No films—but, No is not bad. The No films have a really clear idea, and I’m like quite focused.”
‘We really did not want to say goodbye to this brilliant, imaginative and totally committed group of actors and media artists.’
A new film/performance spotlights the often-invisible workers who fold the clothes, maintain the machines and know your secrets.
“Tributaries: Zora Neale Hurston and Other Chroniclers of the Deep South” at MoMA includes films by Zora Neale Hurston, Pare Lorentz, and Lynne Sachs
“Your Day is My Night” screens in in Guangzhou with US Embassy program “The Asian Pacific American Experience: Shared Stories, Shared Heritage”.
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lynne Sachs and Nina Menkes are American independent, experimental filmmakers who have been making movies for three decades. Their films have been showcased at international festivals, and they’ve won numerous awards.
A short interview with Fandor’s “Women of FIX” program.
the CHSA Museum screens “Your Day Is My Night” on February 28th, 2015.
