Lynne Sachs
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5/14/2025 – Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal
Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal Wednesday, May 14, 2025 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm) Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco Lynne Sachs, Jenni Olson, and MFJ Editor Nicholas Gamso in person! This selection of short moving image pieces—all discussed in recent issues of the Millennium Film Journal—will celebrate the release of MFJ no. 81, “Dedication.” The new […]
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Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s This Side of Salina
This Side of Salina (2025, 12 minutes, color, sound, digital file) Four Black women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services. In a series of their own choreographed vignettes, each woman thoughtfully engages with the neighborhoods she’s known all […]
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Now Available: Three New Films by Lynne Sachs
Canyon Cinema is delighted to announce that three new films by Lynne Sachs are now available for rent, including: Contractions, which was recently featured on The New York Times’ Op-Docs page; She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes, featuring Barbara Friedman and Laetitia Mikles; and The Jitters, commissioned by Indiana University’s Moving Image Archive for […]
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Now Available: A New Digital Restoration of Lynne Sachs’s Investigation of a Flame
Canyon is pleased to announce that a new digital restoration of Lynne Sachs’s Investigation of a Flame (2001), an intimate, experimental documentary portrait of the Catonsville Nine, is now available. Praised by The Los Angeles Times as “A complex rumination on the power of protest,” and hailed by The Village Voice‘s Phillip Lopate as the best […]
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Canyon Cinema Discovered Launches Four Newly-Curated Programs and 40 Artist-Made Films and Videos From Inaugural Curatorial Fellowship
For Immediate Release San Francisco, CA—Canyon Cinema (est. 1961 in the Bay Area), one of the world’s foremost advocates for and distributors of independent moving-image art, announces the full line-up and screening schedule for its inaugural curatorial fellowship, Canyon Cinema Discovered, taking place throughout the month of October 2022. Four newly-curated programs will premiere at […]
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Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s Swerve
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Swerve, a new film by Lynne Sachs featuring poetry by Paolo Javier. As Herbert Gambill writes for Mystery Catalogue, “Swerve is a cinematic meditation on postmodern/avant-garde/post-colonial poetry construction in general and specifically it’s a terrific incitement to read Javier’s book and seek out more of Sachs’s fascinating body of work.” Swerve […]
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Announcing the Canyon Cinema Discovered Programs!
We’re thrilled to finally announce the screening line-ups for our inaugural Canyon Cinema Discovered programs, which will debut this fall in San Francisco and online. Stay tuned for details! Prime Time ReverieCurated by Aaditya AggarwalFrom cosmetic commercials to women-led talk shows to narrative melodrama, television catered to feminized viewers is a formally diverse genre, nudging, socializing, and […]
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Now Available: Lynne Sachs’s E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
Now available from Canyon Cinema: Lynne Sachs‘s E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo, which was commissioned for the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre‘s program, “The letters that weren’t and also are,” in 2021. E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo (Lynne Sachs, 2021, 5 minutes, b&w, sound, digital file) In a cinema letter to […]
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