Girl Is Presence (2020)
During the 2020 global pandemic, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her daughter Noa collaborated with Anne Lesley Selcer to create Girl is Presence. The work is a form of reading and listening in response to disquieting words from Selcer’s poem “Sun Cycle.” The film’s disparate objects reflect a disharmonious and tense list of voiced nouns. The poem’s original tone, contextualized by a book that deals with gender and power, takes on an expanded sense here. Against the uncertain and anxious pandemic atmosphere, inside domestic space, the “girl” arranges and rearranges a collection of small and mysterious things. Commissioned by Small Press Traffic for Bay Area Shorts during the national shelter-in-place order caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020.
Directors: Lynne Sachs, Anne Lesley Selcer.
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Noa Street-Sachs as |
| Writing | Anne Lesley Selcer | Writer |
| Camera | Lynne Sachs | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Rebecca Shapass | Editor |
| Directing | Lynne Sachs | Director |
| Directing | Anne Lesley Selcer | Director |
