The Body in Space: An Interactive Workshop

The Body in Space——An Interactive Workshop

In this fast-paced, exhilarating, collaborative and interactive workshop, experimental filmmaker Lynne SACHS will guide her participants through her own evolution as a filmmaker, her own conception a “somatic cinema,” and work as a group to create our own live film performance, which will be presented to the public on 10/26.

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▍About Lynne Sachs

Lynne Sachs is an experimental filmmaker and poet living in Brooklyn. Over the last four decades, she has created cinematic works that defy genre through the use of hybrid forms and cross-disciplinary collaboration, incorporating elements of the essay film, documentary, performance, and collage.  Her films and poems explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. Working from a feminist perspective, she investigates connections between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself. Sachs uses letters, archives, diaries, poetry and music, to take us on a critical journey through reality and memory. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at Museum of the Moving Image, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Cork Film Festival, China Women’s Film Festival, Costa Rica IFF, and Ambulante Festival of Documentary Film (Mexico). Tender Buttons Press published Lynne’s book Year by Year Poems.

▍Words from Lynne...

In filmmaking, we are always negotiating the photographing of images that contain the body. We bring experiential, political or aesthetic contingencies to both the making and viewing of a cinema that contains the human form. If a body is different from our own – in terms of gender, skin color, or age – perhaps we frame it differently without even realizing it. We all know that looking at a body on screen affects us emotionally, psychologically and physically? When we speak of “space,” we must consider three dimensional issues of the here and now as well as more speculative conditions that arrive when we contemplate the future.

     

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▍Assistant: Tzuan WU


An experimental filmmaker/artist. Most of WU's works are collages with heterogeneous images, audio, and texts in an attempt to inquire about the constructs of narratives and self. His work spans experimental film, documentary, audiovisual installations, and expanded cinema performances. He is also a member of ReaRflex and bak-nih-á Film Festival.