Lynne Sachs Movies
- 2021
E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
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In a cinema letter to Jean Vigo, Lynne Sachs ponders the French filmmaker’s 1933 classic Zéro de conduite, in which school boys wage an...
- 2006
Noa, Noa
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Over the course of three years, Lynne Sachs collaborated with her daughter Noa (from 5 to 8 years old), criss-crossing the wooded landscapes of...
- 2007
XY Chromosome Project
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The X Y Chromosome Project is the creation of artists Lynne Sachs and Mark Street. In addition to our two daughters, we make films and performances...
- 2016
Day Residue
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I spent a day with my mother and stepfather shooting Super 8mm film in my childhood home in Memphis, Tennessee. Sigmund Freud believed that the...
- 2017
And Then We Marched
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Lynne shoots Super 8mm film of the Jan. 21 Women’s March in Washington, D.C. and intercuts this recent footage with archival material of early...
- 2015
Starfish Aorta Colossus
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Poetry watches film. Film reads poetry. Paolo Javier's text is a catalyst for the digital sculpting of an 8mm Kodachrome canvas.
- 2018
¡Despertar!
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On June 28, 2018, laundry workers from El Barrio in New York City marched to the laundromat where they work. Their community and the Laundry Workers...
- 1983
The Tarot
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Filmed on the Lower East Side of New York City and featuring Kathy Steuer.
- 2012
Same Stream Twice
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My daughter's name is Maya. I've been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. As I watch her growing up, spinning like a top...
- 1994
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
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In this illuminating study of cultural contrasts, American filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her sister, Dana, travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi,...
- 2018
A Morning with Jack Waters
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In conversation with filmmaker Lynne Sachs, multi-disciplinary artist Jack Waters discusses his career and experiences as a part of the downtown New...
- 2000
Window Work
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A woman drinks tea, washes a window, reads the paper: simple tasks that somehow suggest a kind of quiet mystery within and beyond the image....
- 1997
A Biography of Lilith
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In a lively mix of off-beat narrative, collage and memoir, A Biography of Lilith updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman...
- 2014
Drift and Bough
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Lynne Sachs spends a winter morning in Central Park shooting film in the snow. Holding her Super 8mm camera, she takes note of graphic explosions of...
- 1970
Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home
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In July 1971, avant-garde writer and language poet Bernadette Mayer produced Memory, a multimedia project in which she shot one roll of 35mm film...
- 2010
Wind in Our Hair
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Inspired by the short stories of Julio Cortázar, Lynne Sachs creates an experimental narrative about a group of girls on the verge of...
- 2011
Sound of a Shadow
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A wabi sabi summer in Japan: Observing that which is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete produces a series of visual haiku in teeming street life;...
- 1986
Fossil
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The village women of Mambai in Bali, Indonesia collect sand and stone from the river. Each woman sells what she has gathered for construction...
- 2006
The Small Ones
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During World War II, the United States Army hired Lynne Sachs’ cousin, Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones, small and large, of dead...
- 2020
Girl Is Presence
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During the 2020 global pandemic, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her daughter Noa collaborated with Anne Lesley Selcer to create Girl is Presence. The work...