Lynne Sachs:
This Side of Salina

October 10 – December 21, 2024
Thursday – Saturday, dusk – 11pm
Everson Museum Plaza
401 Harrison Street

Related Events

Communities of Care: Documenting Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Country
Thursday, Oct. 17 | 5:30 pm
Light Work, Watson Theater

Light Work’s Urban Video Project is pleased to present the exhibition of This Side of Salina by filmmaker Lynne Sachs exploring reproductive justice from October 12 – December 21 at our architectural projection venue on the Everson Museum facade in downtown Syracuse.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Sachs will be present for the special event Communities of Care: Documenting Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Country in Watson Theater at Light Work (on the SU campus) on Thursday, October 17 at 5:30pm.

About the Work

Award-winning filmmaker Lynne Sachs’ latest work was commissioned by Light Work and shot while she was in residence in Syracuse during spring 2024. Working in collaboration with reproductive justice advocates J’viona Baker, Ja’Rhea Dixon, Vernahia Davis, and Angela Stroman from local organization Layla’s Got You, the film celebrates the ways that mutual support networks and the sharing of lived experience become tools of political and personal empowerment.

This project is part of a larger effort in which Sachs is involved called The Abortion Clinic Film Collective, a diverse group of artists from around the country who came together in the wake of the Dobbs decision. Each has a relationship with a place where laws governing reproductive care have changed significantly since the overturning of Roe.

About the Artist

Lynne Sachs is an American experimental filmmaker and poet based in Brooklyn, New York. Working from a feminist perspective, she has created cinematic works that defy genre through the use of hybrid forms, incorporating elements of documentary, performance, and collage into self-reflexive explorations of broader historical experience. Her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Wexner Center for the Arts, and festivals such as New York Film Festival, Oberhausen Int’l Short Film Festival, Punto de Vista, Sundance, Viennale and Doclisboa. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at Museum of the Moving Image, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Cork Film Festival, Havana Film Festival, among others.  In 2021, both Edison Film Festival and Prismatic Ground Film Festival at the Maysles Documentary Center gave her awards for her lifetime achievements in the experimental and documentary fields. In 2014, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. In 2019, Tender Buttons Press published her first book of poetry, “Year by Year Poems”. Her film catalogue is represented in North America by Canyon Cinema and the Filmmaker’s Cooperative with selected features at Cinema Guild and Icarus Films.

Artist’s website: www.lynnesachs.com

Sponsors

This project was made possible through a Support for Artists grant by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

The UVP program is made possible with a Tier Three Project Support grant from the County of Onondaga, with the support of County Executive Ryan McMahon and the Onondaga County Legislature, administered by CNY Arts.