SFMOMA’s “Open Space” site published Anne Lesley Selcer’s multi-layered, poetic essay on my film Your Day is My Night today. Selcer’s erudite rumination includes references to Gaston Bachelard and Henri Levebvre as well as egregious anti-tenant laws like San Francisco’s “Ellis Act” which says that landlords have the unconditional right to evict tenants to “go […]
SinoVision’s ardent young reporters deliver again with a nice piece about our upcoming series at Anthology Film Archives. The series runs January 24-26th and features past and present work that examines Chinatown from the lens of both insiders and outsiders. Click the image to watch the video on sinovision.net!
“We Landed/I Was Born/Passing By: New York’s Chinatown On Screen” gets a shout out from the Wall Street Journal in a listing of the upcoming weekend’s events! From Fosse to a History of Funk Movies for Music Lovers in this Week’s Repertory Film Wall Street Journal Online By Steve Dollar – January 22, 2014 It was the […]
Meniscus Magazine has published terrific coverage of “We Landed/I Was Born/Passing By: New York’s Chinatown on Screen”, a program curated by Lesley Yiping Qin, Xin Zhou, Bo Wang, and Lynne Sachs screening this weekend at Anthology Film Archives. Here’s an excerpt from the piece about Your Day is My Night, screening Sunday the 26th at 7:30pm. […]
Your Day is My Night opened CalArts’ 2014 screening series at the REDCAT Theater on January 20th. Lynne and I flew out from NYC to present the film and we couldn’t have been happier with the quality projection and lively discussion around the film. While Lynne headed north to visit CalArts, I took a few […]
Film critic Sukhdev Sandhu placed Your Day is My Night on his best films of 2013 list for Sight & Sound’s online magazine, writing: “New York’s Chinatown, a place as much spectral as real, flickers and flares into life in this singular hybrid of documentary, performance piece and cine-monologue. Seven working-class, immigrant residents of a shift-bed apartment […]
Tom Brook of the BBC recently named Your Day is My Night as one of eight films to check out in 2014 writing, “Director Lynne Sachs’ Your Day is My Night shines a light on a little documented sub-culture in New York’s Chinatown, chronicling immigrants who live communally in buildings where there’s a shift-bed system. […]
Lynne recently participated in a panel discussion on approaches to narrative-documentary hybridity at the fabulous DCTV. Filmmaker Magazine has this recap from the event: “The Line Blurs:” Morals of Filmmaking by Sara Salovaara, December 12, 2013 “Anything that happens in front of the camera is some kind of performance,” said experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs at […]
I’m grateful I had the opportunity to see Lynne Sachs’s Your Day Is My Night and hear her speak about it afterward. Her hybrid documentary had me constantly thinking back on my observations and experiences as a young kid spending my summers in the border town of Calexico, Ca. My grandpa owned a ranch one […]