A workshop by Lynne Sachs During this unique workshop with experimental documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs, participants will work together on a series of exercises which draw on a mixture of personal experience and fiction to create the beginnings of an experimental documentary. These exercises will include the creation of characters, and collaborative shooting with other members of the group. Filmmakers are encouraged to bring any kind of camera that can record a moving image, as the workshop will involve shooting in and around the UnionDocs space. In addition to the creation of new material, the workshop will also include a presentation of related films and short fiction pieces. The workshop will last approximately four hours. Workshop fee: $25

Since 1994, her five essay films have taken her to Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel and Germany - sites affected by international war ? where she tries to work in the space between a community?s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions. Strongly committed to a dialogue between cinematic theory and practice, Lynne searches for a rigorous play between image and sound, pushing the visual and aural textures in her work with each and every new project. Since 2006, she has collaborated with her partner Mark Street in a series of playful, mixed-media performance collaborations they call The XY Chromosome Project. In addition to her work with the moving image, Lynne co-edited the 2009 Millennium Film Journal issue on ?Experiments in Documentary?. Supported by fellowships from the Rockefeller and Jerome Foundations and the New York State Council on the Arts, Lynne?s films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival and recently in a five film survey at the Buenos Aires Film Festival. In 2010, the San Francisco Cinematheque published a monograph with four original essays in conjunction with a full retrospective of Lynne?s work. Lynne teaches experimental film and video at New York University and lives in Brooklyn. For more information visit lynnesachs.com.