‘Your Day is My Night’ was recently reviewed in Vancouver’s online arts and culture magazine, Georgia Straight, in conjunction with its shows at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Georgia Straight VIFF 2013 review: Your Day Is My Night Janet Smith, September 30th, 2013 LYNNE SACHS’S MELANCHOLY experiment reaches closer to the truth than a standard […]
The talented Veraalba Santa, who plays the character Lourdes in Your Day is My Night, and Rojo Robles, the film’s co-writer, recently conceived this brilliant dance film shot around Brooklyn. We loved it and couldn’t help but share it! Veraalba is a fearless performer and Rojo’s soundscape is equally captivating! Enjoy!
Lynne recently took part in a panel discussion at IFP Film Week in NYC called “Neorealist Features & Hybrid Documentaries” along with David Wilson of the True/False Festival, and filmmakers Lotfy Nathan, Damon Russell, & Tim Sutton. Paula Bernstein of Indiewire recapped the panel in her article here: Fact or Fiction? Neorealist Features and Hybrid […]
Lynne recently met with Karen Rester of the Brooklyn Rail to talk “Your Day is My Night”, the hybrid doc process, and UC Berkeley ’92. The Brooklyn Rail September 4, 2013 In Conversation: Lynne Sachs with Karen Rester When the experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs taught avant-garde filmmaking at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992, […]
Earlier this month, I attended the Traverse City Film Festival in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan. I spent three days seeing films and taking boat rides on the lake. I also had a bad case of laryngitis so spent the closing festival gala milling around, smiling on occasion, and searching for a cup of tea. Lo […]
On July 15th, Lynne and I trekked to Boston, sisters and s.o.’s in tow, to screen Your Day is My Night in my old stomping grounds; Cambridge, MA. The film showed as part of The DocYard’s summer series at the Brattle Theater, an independent and repertory house where I saw many career-affirming flicks like Andrew […]
Sachs calls the film a “hybrid documentary,” with real-life stories told by middle-aged and elderly, Chinese immigrants presented in a honed, often theatrical, style rather than as verité oral histories.
Combining scripted performance with improvisation, Your Day is My Night becomes immediately difficult to classify. Is it a documentary?
Lynne Sachs’ latest film fuses techniques of oral history and performance to achieve an impressionistic portrait of seven characters…