Girl is Presence
Directed by Lynne Sachs and Anne Lesley SelcerDuring 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 multitude of disparate objects sensorily reflect back 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.
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