SinoVision reporter Yizi Chen covered the world premiere at MoMA Documentary Fortnight. Click to watch on SinoVision.net.
Video: SinoVision TV Coverage of MoMA Premiere
Review: “The Nation” magazine
“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 […]
Video: SinoVision Coverage of University Settlement Performances
SinoVision covered the three night run of the live performances at University Settlement. Click to watch the video on SinoVision.net
Feature: “DNAinfo New York” on University Settlement Film-Performances
New Performance Focuses on Shared Beds for Chinatown Shift Workers by Serena Solomon, DNAinfo New York, December 13, 2012 CHINATOWN — A multimedia performance is seeking to shine a light on the phenomenom of “shift beds,” in which struggling immigrants rent places to sleep in 12-hour installments. The performance, “Your Day is My Night,” will […]
Feature: “The World Journal” on University Settlement Performances
Film Looks at New Yorkers Who Take Turns Sharing a Bed By Ai Shen Wong and Yee Shin Du in The World Journal October 24, 2012 Translated by Connie Yik Kong in Voices of New York Directed by Lynne Sachs, the film “Your Day is My Night,” presents the harsh lives of Chinese immigrants who […]
Feature: The Lo-Down Magazine
Your Day is My Night: An Inside Look at New York’s “Shift-Bed” Residents by Giacinta Frisillo, The Lo Down, News from the Lower East Side, October 9th 2012 They are living right here on the Lower East Side but most of us are oblivious to the existence, let alone the daily travails, of New York’s […]
Visions of Hong Kong “Cage” Living
In the film, our collaborator and performer Sheut Hing Lee talks about growing up in a multi-family apartment in Hong Kong in the 1930s. Her story sparked our interest in this amazing series of photographs shared with us by our Production Manager Catherine Ng. The series was published on Sinovision.net. It gave us a powerful […]
The Cageman dir. by Jacob Cheung
Scott Ng, the brother of our Production Manager and Translator Catherine Ng, is a film-obsessed radio personality in Vancouver, BC. He sent us this startling dramatization of life in a Hong Kong shift-bed house. At first it feels like an over the top B-movie, but then one realizes it’s full of grit and pathos. Check […]
A Bed and a Key at 81 Bowery – Photos by Annie Ling
Coming across Annie Ling’s exquisite images of the residents of 81 Bowery Street in the New York Times, we discovered our shared interests as artists committed to interpreting the urban experience. Our mutual interest in photographing domestic life in Chinatown in particular will lead to future shared exhibitions at the Museum of the Chinese in […]