States of Belonging, program 1: Girl Talk
Saturday, April 10 at 8:30 pm
Other Cinema at Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia St., San Francisco

Curated by Craig Baldwin

Inspired by the stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortazar, yet blended with the realities of contemporary Latin America, here’s the world debut of Wind in Our Hair, Lynne Sachs’ experimental narrative about four girls discovering themselves through a fascination with the trains that pass by their house. A story of early-teen anticipation and disappointment, the 42-min. lyric is circumscribed by a period of profound Argentine sociopolitical unrest. Shot with 16mm, Super 8mm, and Regular 8mm film and video, the rites of passage proceed from train tracks to sidewalks, into costume stores, kitchens, and into backyards in the heart of today’s Buenos Aires. Plus: In her House of Science: a museum of false facts, Sachs suggests that the mind/body split so characteristic of Western thought is particularly troubling for women, who may feel themselves moving between the territories of the film’s title—private, public, and idealized space—without wholly inhabiting any of them. The film explores society’s conceptions of woman through home movies, personal reminiscences, staged scenes, found-footage and voice-over. Also Lynne’s Atalanta: 32 Years Later; Noa, Noa; and Photograph of Wind.

- Wind in Our Hair (Con viento en el pelo) (2010)
- Atalanta: 32 Years Later (2006)
- Noa, Noa (2006, with Noa Street-Sachs)
- Photograph of Wind (2001)
- The House of Science: a museum of false facts (1991)