Window Work
Available for sale: Digital file, DVD NTSC
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About
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 one hears the rhythmic, pulsing symphony of crickets in a Baltimore summer night. Other times jangling toys dissolve into the roar of a jet overhead, or children tremble at the sound of thunder. These disparate sounds dislocate the space temporally and physically from the restrictions of reality. The small home-movie boxes within the larger screen are gestural forms of memory, clues to childhood, mnemonic devices that expand on the sense of immediacy in her "drama." These miniature image-objects represent snippets of an even earlier media technology – film. In contrast to the real time video image, they feel fleeting, ephemeral, imprecise.
"A picture window that looks over a magically realistic garden ablaze in sunlight fills the entire frame. In front, a woman reclines while secret boxes filled with desires and memories, move around her as if coming directly out of the screen." – Helen DeWitt,
"Thresholds of the Frame", Tate Modern Museum of Contemporary Art, London
"On screen images of ordinary objects seem weirdly evocative. A duster complete with a bushy top of feathers begins to resemble a palm tree. You will discover that a great deal is happening, some of it inside your own mind. The magic of the piece occurs in the moments between sounds." – Holly Selby, "Art Portfolio"
Screenings: The Baltimore Sun Dallas Video Festival; Delaware Art Museum Biennial; Athens Film Fest; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany; New York Film Expo; Black Maria Director's Citation; Moscow Film Festival; Tate Modern, London; Film Arts Festival, San Francisco
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"Home" Movies
A program of avant-garde shorts exploring homes and domestic spaces
Join us on Saturday, September 24th, 2022, at 6pm in the FMC Screening Room for "HOME" MOVIES: A program of avant-garde shorts exploring homes and domestic spaces. Curated by Matt McKinzie.
Films
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Drawn and Quartered
Lynne Sachs16mm, color, silent, 4 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Still Life With Woman and Four Objects
Lynne Sachs16mm, black and white, sound, 4 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning
Lynne Sachs16mm, color, sound, 9 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Sermons & Sacred Pictures: the life and work of Reverend L.O. Taylor
Lynne Sachs16mm, color and b/w, sound, 29 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
Lynne Sachs16mm, color, sound, 30 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Which Way Is East
Lynne SachsDVD, color, sound, 33 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimentalNarrative
A Biography of Lilith
Lynne Sachs16mm, color and b/w, sound, 35 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Photograph of Wind
Lynne Sachs16mm, color and b/w, sound, 4 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Investigation of a Flame
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 45 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
First Steps in a Terra Incognita
Lynne Sachsvideo, color, sound, 4 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Tornado
Lynne Sachsvideo, color, sound, 4 minRental format: Digital file - Read MoreExperimental
A Collection of Films on DVD Exploring Women, Culture, Science & Myth by Lynne Sachs Vol. 1
Lynne SachsDVD, color and b/w, sound, 65 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
States of UnBelonging
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 63 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Noa, Noa
Lynne Sachs16mm , color and b/w, sound, 8 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreAnimationExperimental
Atalanta: 32 Years Later
Lynne Sachs16mm, color, sound, 5 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Lynne Sachs: 10 Short Films Vol.3
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 62 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
The Small Ones
Lynne SachsDigital, color, sound, 3 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 8 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
The Last Happy Day
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 38 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Cuadro por Cuadro/ Frame by Frame
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 8 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
The Task of the Translator
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 10 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimentalNarrative
Wind in Our Hair (Con viento en el pelo)
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 42 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Sound of a Shadow
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 10 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Same Stream Twice
Lynne Sachs16mm, color and b/w, silent, 4 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Your Day is My Night
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 65 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Drift and Bough
Lynne Sachsblack and white, sound, 6 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC, super8 - Read MoreExperimental
Starfish Aorta Colossus
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 5 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentary
Viva and Felix Growing Up
Lynne Sachsblack and white, sound, 10 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Day Residue
Lynne SachsSuper 8mm , color, silent, 3 minRental format: Digital file - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
A Year in Notes and Numbers
Lynne Sachsdigital file, color, silent, 4 minRental format: Digital file - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Tip of My Tongue
Lynne SachsHD Video, color, sound, 80 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
And Then We Marched
Lynne Sachs16mm and Super 8mm , color, silent, 3 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
The Washing Society
Lynne SachsHD Video, color, sound, 44 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
Lynne Sachsdigital file , color, sound, 9 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
A Month of Single Frames
Lynne Sachsdigital file, color, sound, 14 minRental format: Digital file - Read MoreExperimental
Orange Glow
Lynne Sachsdigital file, color, sound, 1.26 minRental format: Digital file - Read MoreExperimental
Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home
Lynne Sachsdigital file, black and white, sound, 3 minRental format: Digital file - Read MoreExperimental
Girl is Presence
Lynne Sachsdigital file, color, sound, 4 minRental format: Digital file - Read MoreExperimental
E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
Lynne Sachsdigital file, black and white, sound, 5 minRental format: Digital file - Read MoreExperimental
Maya at 24
Lynne Sachsdigital file, color, sound, 4 minRental format: Digital file - Read More
Figure and I
Lynne SachsDigital, color, silent, 4 min - Read MoreExperimental
Swerve
Lynne Sachsdigital and S8mm, color, sound, 8 minRental format: Digital file - Read More
She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes
Lynne SachsDigital, color, silent, 4 min - Read More
The Jitters
Lynne Sachs16mm, black and white, sound, 3 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file - Read More
Contractions
Lynne SachsDigital, color, sound, 12 min