Lynne Sachs Movies
- 2002
Investigation of a Flame
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On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters led by Daniel and Philip Berrigan, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed...
- 2010
The Task of the Translator
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Lynne Sachs pays homage to Walter Benjamin’s essay "The Task of the Translator" through three studies of the human body. First, she listens to...
- 2009
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet
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I began reading Virgil's Georgics, a 1st Century epic agricultural poem, and knew immediately that I needed to create a visual equivalent about my...
- 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,...
- 2001
Photograph of Wind
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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...
- 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...
- 2017
Tip of my Tongue
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To mark her 50th birthday, filmmaker Lynne Sachs gathers a group of her contemporaries—all New Yorkers but originally hailing from all corners...
- 2018
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
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From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the...
- 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.
- 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...
- 2009
Cuadro por cuadro
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A documentary of a workshop taught by the filmmaker at the Foundacion D'Arte Contemporaneo, an artist's collective in Montevideo, Uruguay. Workshop...
- 2002
First Steps in a Terra Incognita
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A young American woman travels to Bosnia to contemplate life there after a period of war. The camera is her being, moving quietly in and out of...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2021
Maya at 24
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Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya in 16mm black and white film, at ages 6, 16 and 24. At each iteration, Maya runs around her mother, in a circle...
- 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...
- 2009
The Last Happy Day
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THE LAST HAPPY DAY is an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker...
- 2022
Swerve
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A food market and playground in Queens, NY becomes the site for this film inspired by Paolo Javier’s Original Brown Boy poems. The film itself...
- 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.