2000, 33rd annual humboldt Int’l Film Festival
We’d love to regale you with faerie tales of how things all came together, on time (ahead of time, even), how all we really did was make a few phone calls, watch a few films, and a festival just materialized.
But we’d be lying.
Rather, ours is more of a cautionary tale: a tempest-tossed sea filled with missed classes, empty gallons of midnight oil, and countless abandoned bodies in our wake. Yet somewhere, in the debris of our madness, from the ashes rose the phoenix of this week’s festival, which we proudly present to you. Pay no attention to the trio of lunatics who linger in the shadows, turn your eyes to the screen. These shows are for you: the audience, the filmmakers, the world.
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FILM FESTIVAL CO-DIRECTORS
EMILY WEEMS
JOHN OLUWOLE ADEKOJE
TRACY BOYD
FILM FESTIVAL JUDGE
LYNNE SACHS
Lynne Sachs is an experimental filmmaker currently residing in Baltimore Maryland. She describes her films as exploring “the intricate relationship between personal memories and broader, historical experiences. As an experimental maker, I try to make images that lead to new ways of thinking about the language of film. I am drawn to the metaphors of collage, the cinematic stirrings that occur when two disparate film images come into contact.”
She graduated from Brown University with a degree in history, then went on to San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute to receive her Master’s Degree in Film. NEA Regional Fellowships have allowed her to explore her film experiments and create two of the films we show tonight: “Which Way is East: Notebooks from Vietnam”, a collaborative effort with her sister, and “The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts”, which examines the feelings she saw from interviews with women and girls. Tonight’s third film, “A Biography of Lilith” examines a modern-day Lilith interwoven with the story of the original Lilith.
Currently, Ms Sachs lives in Baltimore with filmmaker Mark Street, and their two daughters, Maya and Noa. She is the visiting artist in the film program at Temple University.
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