![Lynne Sachs](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/dFFx0RQimWEqBILDmZnNqwniJMt.jpg)
Lynne Sachs
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 | Directing |
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Most Rating | 0.925 |
Birthday | 1961-08-10 |
Place of Birth | Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
Also Known As |
![Window Work](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/i65Jrp7npmP6FPi7tsC7oY2iOUd.jpg)
2000
![Window Work](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/i65Jrp7npmP6FPi7tsC7oY2iOUd.jpg)
Window Work
4/1
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. Sometimes...
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Window Work
![Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qiSQsQIN1mjGBW2cVTnLlcSRiI2.jpg)
1994
![Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qiSQsQIN1mjGBW2cVTnLlcSRiI2.jpg)
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
6/1
In this illuminating study of cultural contrasts, American filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her sister, Dana, travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, re...
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Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
![The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/daceVGIa04xOIpEMwiQmklfgCzP.jpg)
1991
![The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/daceVGIa04xOIpEMwiQmklfgCzP.jpg)
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
0/0
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 "man's...
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The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
![Film About a Father Who](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/psYTvMQYG4vcgI8yVZeBqjFyEBS.jpg)
2020
![Film About a Father Who](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/psYTvMQYG4vcgI8yVZeBqjFyEBS.jpg)
Film About a Father Who
6/1
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 web...
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Film About a Father Who
![Film Hawk](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
2016
![Film Hawk](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
Film Hawk
4.9/7
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 vet...
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