We’ve been following the story of the resilient former residents of 81 Bowery every since we found out about their eviction by the city from one of the most established and thriving group housing units in New York City. Our friend Annie Ling has been photographing the residents of this tenement for the past two […]
Photographer Annie Ling returns to the 81 Bowery Street community she photographed so beautifully two years ago to document their unexpected eviction. The scope of these portraits gives viewers the chance to both witness and contemplate the fragility of immigrant life in New York City. Photos appeared in the New York Times March 16, 2013.
Lynne Sachs (Director), Amanda Katz (Sound Recordist) and Sean Hanley (Cinematographer/Editor) attended the 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival to screen Your Day is My Night on March 23rd. We were honored to screen at “the temple” of independent and experimental filmmaking in the United States. There’s so much to see during the week of the […]
“Your Day is My Night” had its world premiere at the MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight at the end of February. The film screened twice to full houses, with many families, friends and collaborators present. The cast of the film participated in the post-screening Q&A and stole the show with their wit and enthusiasm for the project. […]
Cinema Spotlight on “Your Day is My Night” by Lesley Yiping Qin, Cinevue, Asian Cinevision In How the Other Half Lives (1890), the seminal book of photojournalism, Jacob Riis documented in his pictures the living condition inside the cramped “shift-bed” houses at the Lower East Side, where immigrants shared beds to minimize lodging expenses. “The metropolis is […]
We met Scott Rudd during the MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight series in February. We got to talking about small domestic spaces in New York City and he shared with us a photo series that he’s been working on for quite some time about a boarding house in Brooklyn Heights. As it turns out, he also knows […]
SinoVision reporter Yizi Chen covered the world premiere at MoMA Documentary Fortnight. Click to watch on SinoVision.net.
“Hollywood Ending?” by Stuart Klawans, The Nation, (March 11/18 2013) “February in New York City brings the Documentary Fortnight program at the Museum of Modern Art, which this year included the world premiere of a remarkable project titled Your Day Is My Night by Lynne Sachs. In January 2011, Sachs began working with middle-aged and elderly residents of […]
SinoVision covered the three night run of the live performances at University Settlement. Click to watch the video on SinoVision.net