Girl is Presence
Collaboration with Lynne Sachs, 2020
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, 2022
Criterion Channel streaming premiere , October 2021
Athens International Film and Video Festival, 2021
Cork International Film Festival, 2021
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, 2021
67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen , 2021
National Gallery of Art, 2021
Crossroads Film Festival, August 2020
Film and Video Poetry Society Festival, 2020
Commissioned for Small Press Traffic for Bay Area Shorts
For GIRL IS PRESENCE, Anne Lesley Selcer was commissioned to make a short film for Small Press Traffic and invited Lynne Sachs to collaborate. Lynne responded to the disquieting words from Anne Lesley Selcer’s poem “Sun Cycle”. A girl arranges and rearranges objects, sensorily reflecting disharmonious list of words voiced by Selcer in the film. As the language builds in tension, the scene becomes occult, ritualistic, and alchemical. The performer creates and unmakes systems with the collection of small, mysterious things. Selcer’s poem emerges from Sun Cycle, the eponymous book which deals with image, gender and power. This particular poem reworks a George Bataille essay to undo and recast its rhythms. Selcer has written about Bataille analytically in Transference, an artist monograph.