{"id":1139,"date":"2001-09-20T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-20T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:26:28","slug":"investigation-of-a-flame-and-which-way-is-east-notebooks-from-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2001\/09\/20\/investigation-of-a-flame-and-which-way-is-east-notebooks-from-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation of a Flame and Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, September 20, 2001, 6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">2001, Lynne Sachs, USA, 45 min, 16mm<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>WHICH WAY IS EAST: NOTEBOOKS FROM VIETNAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">1994, Lynne Sachs and Dana Sachs, USA, 33 min, 16mm<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Lynne Sachs in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On May 17, 1968, nine Vietnam War protesters walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. <em>Investigation of a Flame<\/em> (2001) is an intimate documentary portrait of this disparate band of resisters. A series of informal yet charged conversations examines this politically and religiously motivated performance, while also becoming an exploration of the revelations and disappointments of aging. <em>Which Way Is East<\/em> is a travel diary of sisters Lynne and Dana Sachs\u2019 trip to Vietnam. A collection of tourism, city life, culture clash and historic inquiry, <em>Which Way Is East <\/em>starts as a road trip and flowers into a political discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 20, 2001, 6pm INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME 2001, Lynne Sachs, USA, 45 min, 16mm and WHICH WAY IS EAST: NOTEBOOKS FROM VIETNAM 1994, Lynne Sachs and Dana Sachs, USA, 33 min, 16mm Lynne Sachs in person! On May 17, 1968, nine Vietnam War protesters walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2001\/09\/20\/investigation-of-a-flame-and-which-way-is-east-notebooks-from-vietnam\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Investigation of a Flame and Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[169,203,423,450,476],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","tag-diary","tag-essay-film","tag-monographic-shows","tag-non-fiction","tag-political"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9613,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/9613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}