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@ 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀,Join us for a screening of Every Contact Leaves a Trace by
@lynnesachs1 — one of the most influential voices in experimental and essay filmmaking over the past four decades — followed by a Q&A moderated by Kexin Tom Zhang.
In Every Contact Leaves a Trace, Lynne Sachs begins with something deceptively ordinary: a box of business cards she has kept over decades. Each card carries the residue of an encounter — a person briefly met, a conversation half remembered, a feeling that remained long after the moment passed. Moving through kitchens, festivals, archives, laboratories, parks, and imagined spaces, the film traces how contact between people leaves marks that are emotional, political, historical, and physical.
Blending essay film, documentary, poetry, and archival fragments, Contact, Trace reflects on memory as something fragile, tactile, and constantly shifting. Moving between intimate encounters and larger histories, the film asks how people continue to leave traces within us long after we part.
The film had its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(IDFA) and has since screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and Prismatic Ground.
Kexin Tom Zhang is a New York–based filmmaker and alumna of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her work was selected for the IDFA 2025 Docs for Sale Catalogue, and her cinematography work has screened at festivals including Big Sky, True/False, MIFF, and Rhode Island International.
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