Girl Is Presence (2021)

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 Selcers poem Sun Cycle The films disparate objects reflect a disharmonious and tense list of voiced nouns The poems 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 shelterinplace order caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020