Lynne Sachs

Directing·Aug 10, 1961·Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Rate

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.

Film	Credit
Every Contact Leaves a Trace2025 · Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer	Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer
TThis Side of Salina2024 · Director	Director
Contractions2024 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
TThe Jitters2023 · Director	Director
Swerve2022 · Director	Director
Figure and I2021 · Director	Director
Maya at 242021 · Director	Director
E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo2021 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Girl Is Presence2020 · Director of Photography, Director	Director of Photography, Director
Film About a Father Who2020 · Self, Director of Photography, Director, Writer	Self, Director of Photography, Director, Writer
A Month of Single Frames2019 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
¡Despertar!2018 · Director	Director
A Morning with Jack Waters2018 · Director	Director
The Washing Society2018 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor2018 · Director	Director
And Then We Marched2017 · Director	Director
Tip of my Tongue2017 · Director	Director
A Year in Notes and Numbers2017 · Director	Director
Day Residue2016 · Director	Director
FFilm Hawk2016 · Self	Self
Starfish Aorta Colossus2015 · Director	Director
Drift and Bough2014 · Director	Director
Your Day Is My Night2014 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Same Stream Twice2012 · Director	Director
Sound of a Shadow2011 · Director	Director
Wind in Our Hair2010 · Director	Director
The Task of the Translator2010 · Director	Director
The Last Happy Day2009 · Director of Photography, Director, Writer	Director of Photography, Director, Writer
CCuadro por cuadro2009 · Director	Director
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet2009 · Director	Director
XY Chromosome Project2007 · Director	Director
The Small Ones2006 · Director	Director
Atalanta: 32 Years Later2006 · Director	Director
Noa, Noa2006 · Director	Director
States of UnBelonging2005 · Self, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography	Self, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
Investigation of a Flame2002 · Director	Director
Tornado2002 · Director	Director
First Steps in a Terra Incognita2002 · Director	Director
Photograph of Wind2001 · Director	Director
Window Work2000 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
A Biography of Lilith1997 · Director	Director
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam1994 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts1991 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
Sermons and Sacred Pictures1989 · Director	Director
The Randy Band Film1988 · Director	Director
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning1987 · Director	Director
Fossil1986 · Director	Director
Drawn and Quartered1986 · Director	Director