Video: CUNY TV Segment on Shift Beds

Yun Xiu Huang was recently featured in a segment of CUNY TV’s Asian American Life and he talks about coming to the United States, living in NYC and also the experience of working with Lynne to make Your Day is My Night. The segment features clips from the film and also an interview with Lynne. […]

Review: Educational Media Reviews Online

A recent review by Linda Yau of the Bronx Community College Library: When the cost of living is about 60% of an individual’s wages, then living frugal is an option for people. Your Day Is My Night is a hybrid documentary following the lives of seven working-class Chinese immigrants who live in apartments that has […]

Review: Maine International Film Festival

The Kennebec Journal posted this lovely review of the film after it screened at the Maine International Film Festival in early July. MIFF Movie Review: Your Day is My Night by J.P. Devine – July 15th, 2014 Lynne Sachs has spent 25 years of her young life making films, installations and documentaries from Vietnam to […]

Essay: SFMOMA Open Space Blog

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 […]

Video: SinoVision Covers “WE LANDED/I WAS BORN/PASSING BY”

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 in The Wall Street Journal

“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 […]