Director
Lynne Sachs
65 years · Memphis, Tennessee, USA · 48 films
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.
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Best known for
A Month of Single Frames
2019 · Editor, Writer
On OVID
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018 · Director
On OVID
Your Day Is My Night
2014 · Producer, Director
On OVID
Film About a Father Who
2020 · Self, Cinematography
On OVID
The Last Happy Day
2009 · Cinematography, Editor
On OVID
Investigation of a Flame
2002 · Director
On OVID
Filmography 46
Every Contact Leaves a Trace
2025 · Self, Director
Contractions
2024 · Director, Producer
On OVID
Swerve
2022 · Director
Figure and I
2021 · Director
Maya at 24
2021 · Director
E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
2021 · Director, Producer
Girl Is Presence
2020 · Cinematography, Director
Film About a Father Who
2020 · Self, Cinematography
On OVID
A Month of Single Frames
2019 · Editor, Writer
On OVID
¡Despertar!
2018 · Director
A Morning with Jack Waters
2018 · Director
The Washing Society
2018 · Director, Writer
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018 · Director
On OVID
And Then We Marched
2017 · Director
Tip of my Tongue
2017 · Director
On OVID
A Year in Notes and Numbers
2017 · Director
On OVID
Day Residue
2016 · Director
Starfish Aorta Colossus
2015 · Director
On OVID
Drift and Bough
2014 · Director
Your Day Is My Night
2014 · Producer, Director
On OVID
Same Stream Twice
2012 · Director
Sound of a Shadow
2011 · Director
Wind in Our Hair
2010 · Director
The Task of the Translator
2010 · Director
On Fandor