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This DVD collection presents two of Lynne Sachs' earlier films with several more recent media works -- all of which explore themes of women, culture, science & myth. The creative as well as intellectual inner workings of these projects are revealed for the first time in the context of an elaborately conceived, yet accessible disc.
BIOGRAPHY OF LILITH updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman and for some, the first feminist. In conjunction with the film, the DVD offers a personal introduction to Jewish Kabbala.
THE HOUSE OF SCIENCE: A MUSEUM OF FALSE FACTS investigates science and art's representation of women in our society using home movies, collage, found footage and personal remembrances.
The films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Oberhausen Film Festival, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Delaware Biennial, the Pacifica Film Archive, and the Tate Modern. The films have won awards at the Atlanta, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Athens, Black Maria, Charlotte and Humboldt Film Festivals.
Principal Credits
Films, poetry, collages, interviews, cinematography, direction: Lynne Sachs
DVD design by Rachel Melman
Music: Pamela Z, Charming Hostess
Jewish Scholars: Daniel Boyarin, Tikvah Frymer-Kinsky,
Rabbi Meyer Fund, Naomi Mark
Further Information:
DVD FEATURES INCLUDE:
• Over 40 minutes of never-before-seen interviews with four prominent Judaic scholars provide anchors for discussion of the Lilith myth.
• Six of Sachs’ poems which were written during the making of Biography of Lilith
• Thirteen collages with text which were part of
the making of The House of Science
• Two Short Films
• Filmmaker Biography
• Interactive Menus
• DVD-ROM: Printable Transcript of The House of Science and Poetry from Biography of Lilith
SHORT FILMS
Window Work
9 minute, color, sound video 2000
A picture window that looks over a magically realistic garden ablaze in sunlight fills the entire frame. I recline while secret boxes filled with memories move around me as if coming directly out of the screen.
"A picture window that looks over a magically realistic garden ablaze in sunlight fills the entire frame. In front, a woman reclines while secret boxes filled with desires and memories, move around her as if coming directly out of the screen." Helen DeWitt, "Thresholds of the Frame", Tate Modern Museum of Contemporary Art, London
"On screen images of ordinary objects seem weirdly evocative. A duster complete with a bushy top of feathers begins to resemble a palm tree. You will discover that a great deal is happening, some of it inside your own mind. The magic of the piece occurs in the moments between sounds." "Art Portfolio", The Baltimore Sun, Holly Selby
Dallas Video Festival; Delaware Art Museum Biennial; Athens Film Fest; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany; New York Film Expo; Black Maria Director's Citation; Moscow Film Festival; Tate Modern, London
Photograph of Wind
6mm, b&w and color, 4 min. 2001
My daughter's name is Maya. I've been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. As I watch her growing up, spinning like a top around me, I realize that her childhood is not something I can grasp but rather - like the wind - something I feel tenderly brushing across my cheek.
"Sachs suspends in time a single moment of her daughter." Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
San Francisco Film Festival, Onion City Film Festival
| Catalog Number: MC-356 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Experimental |
| Copyright: 2005 |
Length: 65 minutes + extras |
Format:
DVD Region: All regions |
| TV System: NTSC |
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UPC: 616892622420 |
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Films In Compilation
Biography of Lilith directed by
Lynne
Sachs
USA,
Experimental,
1997,
16mm,
Color,
00:35:00
In a lively mix of off-beat narrative, collage and memoir, Biography of Lilith updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman and for some, the first feminist. Lilith's betrayal by Adam in Eden and subsequent vow of revenge is recast as a modern tale with present-day Lilith musing on a life that has included giving up a baby for adoption and working as a bar dancer. Interweaving mystical texts from Jewish folklore with interviews, music and poetry, Sachs reclaims this cabalistic parable to frame her own role as a mother.
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House of Science: a museum of false facts, The directed by
Lynne
Sachs
USA,
Experimental,
1991,
16mm,
Color,
Optical Monaural,
00:30:00
Here film becomes the place Sachs’ pulls together the work she was doing in the early 1990’s in performance, installation and art. Sachs uses visual and aural collage techniques to combine the theoretical issues of feminism with memories of discovering her body as a young girl and a teenager. By looking at home movies as well as found footage, the filmmaker explores science and art’s representation and conceptualization of women in our society.
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Investigation of a Flame by Lynne Sachs
MC-564, 2001
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On May 17, 1968, three priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME is an intimate... more >
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Joel Schlemowitz - Short Experimental Films
MC-774, 2007
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Joel Schlemowitz is a wizard of cinema, and this collection of short experimental films is a marvel to behold. Each piece is a unique gem -- quirky, provocative, playful, often handmade, and always daring -- celebrating Joel's astonishing mastery of... more >
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Lynne Sachs: 10 Short Films and Videos, Vol. 3
MC-724, 2007
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10 Films:
“XY Chromosome Project” 12 min. 2007
“The Small Ones”, 3 min. video 2006
“Noa, Noa”, 8 min. 16mm, 2006
“Atalanta 32 Years Later” 5 min. video, 2006
“Tornado”, 4 min. video 2002
“Photograph of Wind” 4 min. 16mm, silent,... more >
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Which Way is East - Notebooks from Vietnam
MC-465, 1994
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When two American sisters travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history. Lynne and Dana Sachs' travel diary of their trip to Vietnam is a collection... more >
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