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Visit to Bernadette Mayer's Childhood Home
Lynne Sachs
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3m 20s
Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2020 • 3 minutes
In July 1971, language poet Bernadette Mayer decided to document an entire month of her life. She called the project Memory. Each day, Mayer exposed a roll of 35 mm slide film and wrote in her journal. The result was 1,100 snapshots and a text that took six hours for her to read aloud. In 2020, filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs visited Mayer’s childhood home in a Queens neighborhood of New York City to celebrate Mayer’s work through a collage of architecture, light, and rhythm.
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