“Your Day is My Night” is a fascinating and innovative portrait of Chinese immigrant life in New York by Lynne Sachs. Sachs made the film through a lengthy series of workshops with Chinatown residents who became the film’s authors and performers. Most of the actors are retired people who have had some experience performing in amateur dance and theater productions, so they are comfortable as performers, without being overly polished.
When director Lynne Sachs first got the idea to make a film about shift-bed houses, she googled “hot-bed house” and got X-rated results.
“All great fiction films tend toward documentary, just as all great documentaries tend toward fiction.”
Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier attended both our premier at MoMA and our screening at the Brecht Forum. From the first moment that he saw our film, he noted an artistic connection to Chinatown poet Frances Chung’s book Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple. I have now read the book and it absolutely amazing. I am […]
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The Workers Unite! Film Festival opened with Your Day is My Night at Cinema Village on May 10 and a week later we closed the fest at the Brecht Forum. We were excited to screen the film amongst all of the movies on workers’ rights and unions. Festival director Andrew Tilson noted that he had […]
Our show at Kingsborough Community College on May 6th was amazing. Students from all over the world go to that school and it is a beautiful, large, beachside campus. We all met in Chinatown and took the Q train almost to the end. It’s mostly above ground so you don’t feel too cooped up. I […]
網上熱播：你的白天是我的黑夜 現正舉行中的多倫多影像媒體藝術節(Image Festival)將會有一部關於中國移民的故事。《YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT》是一齣紀錄片，描述中國移民住在紐約唐人街的生活故事，針對個人和集體的經驗。導演Lynne Sachs簡單利用一張床化身成舞台，而故事焦點放重於工人階級，需要共享床位，互用的空間，把移民生活的最基本的障礙，透過戲中表演出來。首影將會在今天(4月19日)下午6:30於Art Gallery of Ontario上映。詳情可查詢：http://www.imagesfestival.com/
We visited our friends to the north this April and screened Your Day is My Night at the 26th Images Festival in Toronto. Images has been a terrific showcase for the expansion of cinematic form since 1988 and in our humble opinion, one of the coolest festivals around. Offering 10+ days of screenings and installations, […]