American Originals Now: Lynne Sachs
Sunday October 16, 16h
Sunday October 23, 14h
National Gallery of Art
Fourth Street and Constitution Ave., NW, 20565 Washington DC

The ongoing film series American Originals Now offers an opportunity for discussion with internationally recognized American filmmakers and a chance to share in their artistic practice through special screenings and conversations about their works in progress. Since the mid-1980s, Lynne Sachs has developed an impressive catalogue of essay films that draw on her interests in sound design, collage, and personal recollection. She investigates war-torn regions such as Israel, Bosnia, and Vietnam, always striving to work in the space between a community’s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions. Sachs teaches experimental film and video at New York University and her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Buenos Aires, New York, and Sundance Film Festivals. Her work was recently the subject of a major retrospective at the San Francisco Cinemathèque.

Visible Evidence XVII
9-12 August 2010, Bogazici University, Istanbul

Visible Evidence, the ambulatory international conference on documentary, will hold its 17th edition at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, from 9-12 August 2010. Hosted by docIstanbul, a non-profit training, research, policy and networking center focusing on documentary film, and Department of Western Languages and Literatures¹ Film Studies Program at Bogaziçi University, Visible Evidence XVII marks the first time that the preeminent documentary studies conference takes place in Turkey, or for that matter, anywhere in the 'Middle East'.

This year¹s conference will address all topics and current issues relating to documentary, with a specific regional emphasis on Turkey and its neighbors. Thus, although we welcome all proposals, we would like to encourage proposals with a focus on the following topics:

- Documentary from Turkey, Iran, the 'Middle East' more generally, the Balkan States and Greece
- Turkic Documentary (from Turkic nations including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan; and communities such as Tatars)
- Border-crossings in Documentary: Trans-nationalism, Border Trade, Migration, and Exile
- Diasporic Documentary (especially, but not exclusively: German, Dutch, Belgian, British, North American, etc. ­­ Turkish/Kurdish documentary)
- Fortress Europe (exclusion, policy and ideology)
- Minority Discourses within the Region (Kurdish, Armenian, Arab, Alevi, Assyrian, Jewish, queer, etc.)
- Activist media from the region

Sessions will last for two hours and be limited to four papers of no more than 20 minutes each. All papers to be presented in English.