[Frameworks] Lynne Sachs and Mark Street at Microscope Monday June 26

Tue Jun 20 10:42:00 UTC 2017

*A Marriage of Remakes *

*by Lynne Sachs & Mark Street** - The XY Chromosome Project*

Microscope Gallery
Monday, June 26, 2017 - 7:30 PM  $8 / $6 member or student
1329 Willoughby Avenue, #2B

Brooklyn

Link to Microscope Gallery:

http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=19593

Link to Advance Tickets:

https://microscopegallery.ticketleap.com/lynne-sachs--mark-s
treet-a-marriage-of-remakes/dates/Jun-26-2017_at_0730PM

Both of us have been making experimental films for more than three
decades.  We've been together as a couple for almost that long.  So it is
with curiosity and a tremor of fear that we embark on an unusual filmmaking
project that involves each of us remaking a few selected short films from
the other's body of work.   The remake production process will start with
picking up the camera and reacting to the other person's selected films
with a combination of humor, insight, irony, pathos and perhaps critique.

We will screen some of our older short films along with new remakes of
those films (not shot-by-shot, but using the original film as
inspiration).  Lynne
may pick up on an element of Mark's film that he didn't even know was
there! Mark may choose to ignore the content of one of Lynne's films in
favor of a formal excavation. This will be an evening of doppelgangers,
updates and sly renovations. The films will be shown in tag team fashion: a
clip from Lynne's completed 2001 film leads into Mark's 2017 remake; Mark's
completed 2015 film is followed by Lynne's 2017 remake and so on.

We will close out the program with a short film we made together as the XY
Chromosome Project, the collaborative project we created in 2001.  After
the screening, we will invite a conversation about form, context, time,
gender and more --  contemplating the frisson that emerges between an older
work and its newer progeny.

*Note: Some films are fresh out of the oven, and in this way are still in
process, not completely resolved, so we will relish responses from the
audience.*

* Mark Street films with response/remakes by Lynne Sachs*

*Brooklyn Promenade (*3 minutes, 16mm/ 2001) by M. Street

“I did my best to shield my kids from the events of 9/11: mildly explaining
the ashes that enveloped our Brooklyn neighborhood, turning off the TV as
images of the planes hitting blared, flipping over the newspaper as it
arrived on our doorstep with shots of the WTC burning. But, of course, the
horror was percolating in them, too, despite my best efforts. Eventually,
they found ways of talking about it, wrapping their heads around it like
the rest of us.”

*And Then We Marched* (3 min., 2017) by L. Sachs

“I shot Super 8mm film of the January 21 Women's March in Washington, D.C.
and intercut this recent footage with archival material of early 20th
Century Suffragists marching for the right to vote, 1960s antiwar activists
and 1970s advocates for the Equal Rights Amendment. A few days later my
seven-year-old neighbor Sophie recounted to me her experience in her
first-ever political march and demonstration. Sophie’s reflections remind
us that you're never too young to speak truth to power.

*Oiltowns* (5 min. excerpt of 40 min. film, 2016) by M. Street

>From 2012 to 2015, Mark traced the boom and bust cycles in and around the
Men’s Camps of Williston, North Dakota.

*Barbara, Carolee & Gunvor* (8 min. 2017, Super 8mm and 16mm on Digital) by
Lynne Sachs

>From 2015 to 2017, Lynne visited with Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann
and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving
image throughout their lives. From Barbara’s  West Village studio to
Carolee’s 18th Century house in the woods of Upstate New York to Gunvor’s
childhood village in Sweden, Lynne shoots film with each woman in the place
where she finds grounding and spark.

*Still Here *(10 min. excerpt from 25 min. film, 2015) by M. Street

The empty nest swirls around him as a filmmaker shoots a series of stills
in and around the city. His only sibling dies; he ages and politics offer a
brief reprieve. He tries various medicines but ultimately ends up
irrevocably himself.

*A Year in Notes and Numbers* (5 min., digital, 2017) by L. Sachs

A year's worth of to-do lists confronts the unavoidable numbers that are
part and parcel of an annual visit to the doctor.   The quotidian and the
corporeal mingle and mix. Family commitments, errands and artistic
effusions trade places with the daunting reality of sugar, cholesterol, and
bone.

*Lynne  Sachs films with response/remakes by Mark Street *

* Investigation of a Flame *(10 min excerpt  of a 45 min. film) by L. Sachs

On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters led by Daniel and Philip
Berrigan, 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 Lynne’s intimate, experimental documentary
portrait of the Catonsville Nine, this disparate band of resisters who
chose to break the law in a defiant, poetic act of civil disobedience.

*Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire *(5 min., 2017) by M. Street

A montage of protests from around the world in which things are set on
fire.  Flags and trash cans are ignited as the protest becomes spectacle.

*Same Stream Twice *(4 min. 16mm on digital, 2012)

In 2001, Lynne photographed our daughter Maya at six years old, spinning
like a top around her. Even then, she realized that her childhood was not
something she could grasp. Eleven years later, Lynne pulled out her 16mm
Bolex camera to film her again – different but somehow the same.

*Boys To Men *(5 min., digital, 2017) by M. Street

Seven-year-old twins run around my camera as their father does his own
revolution.  The soundtrack challenges this moment in time.  (5 min.)

*Coney Island of the Mind* (3 min. digital, 2008) by L. Sachs

A collage homage to Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s great poem “Coney Island of the
Mind”.  Layers of video capture the kinetic topsy-turvy amusement world.

*13 Corners *(6 minutes, 16mm, double projection, 2017) by M. Street

Two 16mm projectors show negative and positive images of 360-degree pan on
13 NYC street corners.  The projectors are slightly offset and mimic the
motion of Coney Island rides.

*Film made by Lynne Sachs and Mark Street together as the XY Chromosome
Project*

*X Y Chromosome Project 2007* (by Lynne Sachs and Mark Street, 11 min. 2007)

The diptych structure is sometimes a boxing match and other times a
pas-de-deux.  Newsreel footage of Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt is
brushed up against hand painted film, domestic spaces, and Christmas movie
trailers. Together, we move from surface to depth and back again without
ever feeling the bends.

*78 minutes Total Running Time*
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