Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 10, 1961
Place of Birth
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Credits
52 titles
Lynne Sachs
Biography
Lynne Sachs makes films, performances, installations and web projects that explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together poetry, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. Since 1994, her five essay films have taken her to Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel and Germany — sites affected by international war–where she tries to work in the space between a community’s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions. Strongly committed to a dialogue between cinematic theory and practice, Lynne searches for a rigorous play between image and sound, pushing the visual and aural textures in her work with each and every new project. Since 2006, she has collaborated with her partner Mark Street in a series of playful, mixed-media performance collaborations they call The XY Chromosome Project. In addition to her work with the moving image, Lynne co-edited the Millennium Film Journal issue on “Experiments in Documentary”. Supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Jerome Foundations and the New York State Council on the Arts, Lynne’s films have screened at the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival and Toronto’s Images Festival as well as a five-film survey at the Buenos Aires Film Festival. The San Francisco Cinematheque recently published a monograph with four original essays in conjunction with a full retrospective of Lynne’s work. In 2012, Lynne began a series of live film performances of Your Day is My Night at St. Nick’s Alliance in Greenpoint, at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn, at Maysles Cinema and at the University Settlement. She then screened the completed hour-long hybrid video at the Museum of Modern Art, the Vancouver Film Fest, Union Docs, the New Orleans Film Fest and other venues in Mexico, Argentina and Ecuador. Lynne teaches experimental film and video at New York University and The New School and lives in Brooklyn.
Known For
Filmography
Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Self
This Side of Salina
Director
Contractions
Director
The Jitters
Director
Swerve
Director
Figure and I
Director
Maya at 24
Director
E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
Director
Girl Is Presence
Director of Photography
Film About a Father Who
Self
A Month of Single Frames
Editor
¡Despertar!
Cinematography
A Morning with Jack Waters
Director
The Washing Society
Director
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
Director
And Then We Marched
Director
Tip of my Tongue
Director
A Year in Notes and Numbers
Director
Day Residue
Director
Film Hawk
Self
Starfish Aorta Colossus
Director
Drift and Bough
Director
Your Day Is My Night
Producer
Same Stream Twice
Director
Sound of a Shadow
Director
Wind in Our Hair
Director
The Task of the Translator
Director
The Last Happy Day
Director of Photography
Cuadro por cuadro
Director
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet
Director
XY Chromosome Project
Director
Atalanta: 32 Years Later
Director
Noa, Noa
Director
The Small Ones
Director
States of UnBelonging
Self
Investigation of a Flame
Director
Tornado
Director
First Steps in a Terra Incognita
Director
Photograph of Wind
Director
Window Work
A Biography of Lilith
Director
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
Sermons and Sacred Pictures
Director
The Randy Band Film
Director
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning
Director
Fossil
Director
Still Life with Woman and Four Objects
Director
Drawn and Quartered
Director
The Tarot
Director