Lynne Sachs Movies
- 2020
My Body, Your Body, Our Bodies: Somatic Cinema at Home and in the World - an Expanded Cinema Screening and Talk by Lynne Sachs
My Body, Your Body, Our Bodies: Somatic Cinema at Home and in the World - an Expanded Cinema Screening and Talk by Lynne Sachs02020HD
How do we negotiate the photographing of images that contain the body? What experiential, political or aesthetic contingencies do we bring to both...
- 2016
Film Hawk
Film Hawk4.92016HD
What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A secret weapon known as Bob Hawk. As a...
- 2002
Tornado
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A tornado is a spinning cyclone of nature. It stampedes like an angry bull through a tranquil pasture of blue violets and upright blades of grass. A...
- 2017
A Year in Notes and Numbers
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A year’s worth of to-do lists confronts the unavoidable numbers that are part and parcel of an annual visit to the doctor. The quotidian and...
- 2016
Day Residue
Day Residue02016HD
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...
- 2024
Contractions
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Intimate confessions, paired with experimental choreography outside a woman’s clinic in Memphis, offer a glimpse into post Roe v. Wade America.
- 2014
Your Day Is My Night
Your Day Is My Night5.52014HD
Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and...
- 2020
Film About a Father Who
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From 1984 to 2019, Lynne Sachs shot film of her father, a bon vivant and pioneering businessman. This documentary is her attempt to understand the...
- 2019
A Month of Single Frames
A Month of Single Frames6.82019HD
In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in...
- 1970
Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home
Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home01970HD
A film by Lynne Sachs
- 2006
States of UnBelonging
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The core of this haunting meditation on war, land, the Bible, and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed...
- 1986
Drawn and Quartered
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Optically printed images of a man and a woman fragmented by a film frame that is divided into four distinct sections. An experiment in form/content...
- 1987
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning01987HD
Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a...
- 2012
Same Stream Twice
Same Stream Twice02012HD
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...
- 2011
Sound of a Shadow
Sound of a Shadow02011HD
A wabi sabi summer in Japan: Observing that which is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete produces a series of visual haiku in teeming street life;...
- 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...
- 1986
Still Life with Woman and Four Objects
Still Life with Woman and Four Objects01986HD
A film portrait that falls somewhere between a painting and a prose poem, a look at a woman’s daily routines and thoughts via an exploration of...
- 1991
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts01991HD
The winner of numerous festival prizes, this early work by Lynne Sachs is a provocative film essay on women's perspectives on their bodies in a...
- 2018
The Washing Society
The Washing Society02018HD
When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who's doing the washing and folding? The Washing Society brings us into New York City laundromats and the...
- 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...