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teaching | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
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Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. TEACHING: Media Mavericks Course on Experiments in Documentary Syllabus. This semester in Media Mavericks we will explore the experimental media work that has emerged in the realm of the documentary. In our discussion of this movement in film and video, we will consider how the practice of working with reality can be challenged, even transported, by the aesthetic freedom that comes with alternative modes of visual expression. YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT. 2008 - 2016 Lynne Sachs.
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Sound of a Shadow | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
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Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. Sound of a Shadow. 8220;Sound of a Shadow”. 10 min., Super 8 , color, sound 2011. By Mark Street and Lynne Sachs. Released on DVD, mini DV and Betat SP. Summer in Japan observing that which is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete produces a series of visual haiku in search of teeming street life, bodies in emotion, and leaf prints in the mud. Black Maria Film Festival, Director’s Choice, 3rd Prize. 2011. Sound of a Shadow. YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT. 2008 - 2016 Lynne Sachs.
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artwork | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
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Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. House of Science Collages by Lynne Sachs. These are a series of collages I made for the 1991 film “The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts”. Photos by Lynne Sachs. Photos from various places and times in my life. LS. Abecedarium paintings by Lynne Sachs. YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT. 2008 - 2016 Lynne Sachs.
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press | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
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Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. Cool Worlds and Sacred Pictures: Hurston, Clarke & Sachs. The Essay Film: Students Contemplate States of UnBelonging by Lynne Sachs. I’m a graduate student in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. I’m enrolled in an essay film class this semester, and this week, I’m putting together a presentation on you and your film, States of Unbelonging. Fandor presents: Lynne Sachs’ Seven Forms of Filmmaking. The Light and Sound Machine is at it again, bringing N...
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Same Stream Twice | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
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Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. 8220;Same Stream Twice”. By Lynne Sachs with Maya Street-Sachs. 4 min 16mm b and w and color on DVD, 2012. Director’s Choice Award – Black Maria Film Festival 2013. My daughter’s name is Maya. I’ve been told that the word. YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT. 2008 - 2016 Lynne Sachs.
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articles | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
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Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. Communal Filmmaking: Bruce Baillie’s Work Still Inspires. My first viewing of Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964) sent a shiver through my body and mind that ricochets to this very day. Time and Light : Gunvor Nelson’s Vision of Editing by Lynne Sachs. Is, Was and Will Be: Living with the films of Chantal Akerman. The Peculiar Intimacy of a NYC Laundromat. Yes, No and an Occasional Maybe. Presented at: Les Encuentros del otro festival cine festival internati...
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films/videos | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
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Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. EVERY FOLD MATTERS is a live performance and a film project that looks at the charged, intimate space of the neighborhood laundromat and the people who work there. Poetry watches film. Film reads poetry. Paolo Javier’s text is a catalyst for the digital sculpting of an 8mm Kodachrome canvas. Syntactical ruptures and the celebration of nouns illuminate twenty-five years of rediscovered film journeys. I spent a morning this winter in Central Park shooting film in the snow.
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poetry | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
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Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. To your health, a poem. Here is a poem I wrote before the passage of Obama’s Health Care plan. The worry continues as we speed our way toward the next election. Reflections on a Crackerjack World. Here is a poem I wrote for the Photo Essay website Saint Lucy. It’s a reflection on a photograph of a children’s birthday party. On awaiting our child, a poem. A poem about the moments of anticipation before the birth of our first child, Maya on February 10, 1995. Wherever I tu...
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writing | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
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Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. Communal Filmmaking: Bruce Baillie’s Work Still Inspires. My first viewing of Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964) sent a shiver through my body and mind that ricochets to this very day. Time and Light : Gunvor Nelson’s Vision of Editing by Lynne Sachs. Is, Was and Will Be: Living with the films of Chantal Akerman. The Peculiar Intimacy of a NYC Laundromat. Every Fold Matters (script) by Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker. Yes, No and an Occasional Maybe. Leandro...
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Your Day is My Night | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
http://www.lynnesachs.com/2013/01/18/your-day-is-my-night-film-in-process
Website of Filmmaker Lynne Sachs. Your Day is My Night. 64 min., HD, Color, Stereo and 5.1 Surround, 2013. Chinese, English and Spanish with English Subtitles. Go to Your Day is My Night website here. Purchase DVD for an institution here Cinema Guild. Purchase DVD for home use here Argot Pictures. While living in a shift-bed apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown, a household of immigrants share their stories of personal and political upheaval. Your Day is My Night. Your Day is My Night.
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