Your Day Is My Night
Thu Oct 22, 2020
7:00 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
During the nineteenth century on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the working class often lived in crowded tenements; out of economic necessity, some shared beds, sleeping in shifts. Today in New Yorks Chinatown, shift-bed apartments still exist, tiny rooms filled with mattresses on bunk beds and the floor. In Lynne Sachss hybrid documentary, the bed is the focus of both personal and political stories of seven Chinese immigrants. Autobiographical monologuesscripted from interviewsare intermixed with verité conversations and reflections on the details of daily life, awakening a unique understanding of Chinese immigration.
Join filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Miko Revereza for a live conversation. Access is included with rental of the streaming film program; you will receive an access link via email prior to the event.