Microscope is pleased to premiere Marriage of Remakes, a new project and conversation in moving images between Lynne Sachs and Mark Street in which the New York-based filmmakers remake works of the other. Three previous works by each will be followed by the other’s interpretations, which are not meant to be literal recreations, but rather responses and reflections to the work in part or in whole.
“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”, says Sachs.
Lynne Sachs and Mark Street have been making films individually and collaboratively under the name “XY Chromosome Project” for over 30 years, which is also the length of the relationship as a couple. Both will be in attendance and available for Q&A after the screening.
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Lynne Sachs makes films, installations, performances and web projects that explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together poetry, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. Sachs has made over 25 films. Between 1994 and 2006, she produced five essay films that took her to Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel, Italy and Germany — sites affected by international war – where she looked at the space between a community’s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions. Recently, she presented Your Day is My Night (2013) and Every Fold Matters (2016) as live performances and then as films in alternative theaters around New York City. In 2017, she completed Tip of My Tongue which premiered as the closing night film in the Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight. Since 2006, Sachs has collaborated with her partner, filmmaker Mark Street, in a series of playful, mixed-media performances called “The XY Chromosome Project”. Her films have screened at the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival and Toronto’s Images Festival amongst others. They have also been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center for the Arts and other venues nationally and internationally. Sachs was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts in 2014.
Mark Street has been making films, videos and installations for 30 years. His work has moved from tactile, abstract explorations of 16mm film to essays on the urban experience to improvised feature length narratives. His film works have been performed live with accompanying musicians, including Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, Bradford Reed and Jane Scarpantoni. Street’s works have shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, and the San Francisco Cinematheque, among others. His work has appeared at numerous festivals such as the Tribeca Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and others. He has been a recipient of grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Film Arts Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council and the New York Experimental TV Center, among others. He has also curated film and art exhibitions at venues including Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, and Fordham University’s Center Art Gallery, among others. Street is Associate Professor of Film in the Visual Art Department at Fordham University – Lincoln Center where he teaches film/video production and other courses that engage contemporary artistic practice. He graduated from Bard College (B.A, 1986) and the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 1992).
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