Sasha Waters Freyer
2021A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965
Sasha Waters Freyer
A meditative exploration of the violent struggle for independence in southeast Asia and butterfly metamorphosis. Framed by excerpts from Sylvia Plath’s poem “Tulips,” A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965 reminds us that comfort is a privilege and denial of the suffering of others is not an option. Scored by a 1965 performance of Bartok’s “Solo for Violin 3.”
A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
Sasha Waters Freyer
Geoff Dyer, Jeffrey Fraenkel
Freyer Artist. Iconoclast. Man of his time. All Things are Photographable is a revealing documentary portrait of the life and work of acclaimed photographer Garry Winogrand – the epic storyteller in pictures of America across three turbulent decades.
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
Whipped
Sasha Waters Freyer
Noted documentary filmmakers Iana Porter and Sasha Waters direct this understated and decidedly un-exploitative look at the world of sadomasochism both as therapy and as business. The film focuses on three New York dominatrices who willingly, lovingly, flog, smack, and abuse their clients: young perky Carrie, glitzy 30-something Sonja Blaze, and Teutonic matron Eva. All argue that they are providing society with an important, if quasi-sexual, service. Their clients ardently agree.
Whipped
An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925
Sasha Waters Freyer
A lyrical essay film that captures the spirit of excess and adventure embodied by The Great Gatsby (published in 1925) in fragments from home movies of a wealthy American family on a Grand Tour of Europe and North Africa.
An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925
Her Heart is Washed in Water and Then Weighed
Sasha Waters Freyer
A meditation on motherhood and mortality that takes its title from a procedure in the autopsying of a human corpse. Subtle juxtapositions evoke parallels between static monuments and living families to suggest what is lost to time and age. When you die, everything you know, including this, disappears.
Her Heart is Washed in Water and Then Weighed
This Existence Is Material
Sasha Waters Freyer
A counter-archive of the past in which public images and private lives, the Old World and the New, collide. The film reflects on how boundaries between genders and generations are shaped by vision and language, by technology and warfare.
This Existence Is Material
The Waiting Time
Sasha Waters Freyer
THE WAITING TIME is an experimental documentary exploration of desire, conception and the long waiting time of gestation. It is a study of a year in the filmmaker's body at age thirty-five, becoming a mother for the first time. As a thinking woman's sex education film, THE WAITING TIME is a feminist attempt to address and articulate the question of maternal subjectivity, the experience of motherhood for the mother herself.
The Waiting Time