Which Way Is East
Available for sale: Digital file, DVD NTSC
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About
When two American sisters travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history. Lynne and Dana Sachs' travel diary of their trip to Vietnam is a collection of tourism, city life, culture clash, and historic inquiry that's put together with the warmth of a quilt. "Which Way Is East" starts as a road trip and flowers into a political discourse. It combines Vietnamese parables, history and memories of the people the sisters met, as well as their own childhood memories of the war on TV. (excerpted from article in The Independent by Susan Gerhard)
"Captures the Vietnam experience with comprehension and compassion, squeezing a vast and incredible country into an intriguing film." Dale Basye, PortlandTonic Magazine
“The sound track is layered with the cacophony of bustling city streets, the chirps of cicadas and gentle rustles of trees in the countryside, and the visuals, devoid of travelogue clichés, are a collage of pictorial snippets taken from unusual vantage points.... What comes through is such a strong sense of the place you can almost smell it.” Ted Shen, The Chicago Reader
"Brings up questions about what we see, how we see it, and who's doing the seeing. It's an honest, down-to-earth, and vividly sensual film." Kurt Wolff, San Francisco Bay Guardian
Screenings: Sundance Film Festival; Atlanta Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize; New York Film Expo, Best Documentary; Black Maria Film Fest, Director's Citation; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Cinematheque; "Arsenal" Film Festival, Riga, Latvia; Pacific Film Archive; Mill Valley Film Festival; San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival; Big Muddy Film Festival, Honorable Mention; Whitney Museum of American Art
Links to full reviews and articles:
http://www.lynnesachs.com/2010/11/14/sachs-explores-themes-of-war-through-films-at-memphis-brooks/
http://www.lynnesachs.com/2010/10/23/otherzine-interview-w-l-sachs-by-molly-hankowitz/
http://www.lynnesachs.com/2010/05/22/searching-lynne-sachs%E2%80%99-cinema-by-lucas-hilderbrand/
http://www.lynnesachs.com/2009/08/08/i-am-not-a-war-photographer-by-lynne-sachs/
Films
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ExperimentalDrawn and Quartered
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ExperimentalFollowing the Object to Its Logical Beginning
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DocumentaryExperimentalSermons & Sacred Pictures: the life and work of Reverend L.O. Taylor
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ExperimentalThe House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
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DocumentaryExperimentalNarrativeA Biography of Lilith
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ExperimentalFirst Steps in a Terra Incognita
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ExperimentalA Collection of Films on DVD Exploring Women, Culture, Science & Myth by Lynne Sachs Vol. 1
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DocumentaryExperimentalStates of UnBelonging
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DocumentaryExperimentalNoa, Noa
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AnimationExperimentalAtalanta: 32 Years Later
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DocumentaryExperimentalLynne Sachs: 10 Short Films Vol.3
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DocumentaryExperimentalThe Small Ones
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ExperimentalGeorgic for a Forgotten Planet
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DocumentaryExperimentalThe Last Happy Day
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DocumentaryExperimentalCuadro por Cuadro/ Frame by Frame
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DocumentaryExperimentalThe Task of the Translator
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ExperimentalNarrativeWind in Our Hair (Con viento en el pelo)
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DocumentaryExperimentalSound of a Shadow
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DocumentaryExperimentalSame Stream Twice
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DocumentaryExperimentalYour Day is My Night
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ExperimentalDrift and Bough
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ExperimentalStarfish Aorta Colossus
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DocumentaryViva and Felix Growing Up
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DocumentaryExperimentalDay Residue
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DocumentaryExperimentalTip of My Tongue
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DocumentaryExperimentalAnd Then We Marched
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DocumentaryExperimentalThe Washing Society
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DocumentaryExperimentalCarolee, Barbara and Gunvor
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DocumentaryExperimentalA Month of Single Frames
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ExperimentalOrange Glow
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ExperimentalVisit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home
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ExperimentalGirl is Presence
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ExperimentalE•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
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ExperimentalMaya at 24
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Figure and I
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ExperimentalSwerve
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She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes
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Contractions
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