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
Window Work
Lynne Sachsvideo, color, sound, 9 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
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
States of UnBelonging
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 63 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
The Small Ones
Lynne SachsDigital, color, sound, 3 minRental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Lynne Sachs: 10 Short Films Vol.3
Lynne Sachscolor, sound, 62 minRental format: 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
Biography
Since the 1980s, Lynne Sachs has created cinematic works that defy genre through the use of hybrid forms and cross-disciplinary collaboration, incorporating elements of the essay film, collage, performance, documentary and poetry. Her highly self-reflexive films explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. With each project, Lynne investigates the implicit connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself.
Lynne discovered her love of filmmaking while living and studying in San Francisco where she worked closely with artists Craig Baldwin, Bruce Conner, Barbara Hammer, Gunvor Nelson, and Trihn T. Min-ha. During this time, she produced her early, experimental works on celluloid which took a feminist approach to the creation of images and writing— a commitment which has grounded her body of work ever since.
From essay films to hybrid docs to diaristic shorts, Sachs has produced 40 films as well as numerous projects for web, installation, and performance. She has tackled topics near and far, often addressing directly the challenge of translation — from one language to another or from spoken work to image. These tensions were investigated most explicitly between 1994 and 2006, when Lynne produced five essay films that took her to Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel, Italy and Germany—sites affected by international war–where she looked at the space between a community’s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions.
Over her career, Sachs has been awarded support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Her films have screened at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Walker and the Getty, and at festivals including New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, Punto de Vista, DocAviv, and DocLisboa. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at the Museum of the Moving Image, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Festival International Nuevo Cine in Havana, and China Women’s Film Festival. Her 2019 film “A Month of Single Frames” won the Grand Prize at Oberhausen Festival of Short Films in 2020. In 2021, both the Edison Film Festival and the Prismatic Ground Film Festival at the Maysles Documentary Center awarded Lynne for her body of work in the experimental and documentary fields.
Lynne Sachs’s catalogue is represented in North America by Canyon Cinema and the Filmmaker’s Cooperative with selected features at Cinema Guild and Icarus Films. Her work is distributed internationally by Kino Rebelde. In tandem with making films, Lynne is also deeply engaged with poetry. In 2019, Tender Buttons Press published Lynne’s first book Year by Year Poems.
Lynne lives in Brooklyn with her husband filmmaker Mark Street. Together, they have two daughters, Maya and Noa Street-Sachs.