Written by Kaj Willson
May 30, 2013
http://artery.wbur.org/2013/
Excerpt from full review of DocYard’s Summer 2013 series
“With help from a library book, a 14-year-old African boy builds a windmill from spare parts. A Berlin-based non-government organization raises money to protect and liberate sexuality and the environment by selling homemade erotic films online. A Georgian youth demonstrates fierce loyalty to his older brother imprisoned for robbery. These are the subjects of three of the six films featured in The DocYard’s 2013 summer series running from June 3 through Aug. 17 at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge.
Jean-Luc Godard said, “All great fiction films tend toward documentary, just as all great documentaries tend toward fiction.” With “Your Day Is My Night,” director Lynne Sachs has created a documentary-fiction hybrid that explores the “shift-bed” experience of Chinese immigrants, ranging in age from 58 to 78 who share a small apartment, and beds, in New York City’s Chinatown. All but one of the film’s characters are non-professionals. In the process of creating this film, stories of extreme hardship and suffering under Mao emerged, becoming part of the fabric of this powerful, poetic and grounded communal work.”
Your Day is My Night will screen July 15, 2013 at the Brattle Theater in Boston.