Biography
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.
Filmography
all 50
Movies 50
Director 46
self 4
Contractions (2024)
Swerve (2022)
Figure and I (2021)
Maya at 24 (2021)
E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo (2021)
Girl Is Presence (2020)
My Body, Your Body, Our Bodies: Somatic Cinema at Home and in the World - an Expanded Cinema Screening and Talk by Lynne Sachs (2020)
Film About a Father Who (2020)
A Month of Single Frames (2019)
A Morning with Jack Waters (2018)
The Washing Society (2018)
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor (2018)
And Then We Marched (2017)
Tip of my Tongue (2017)
A Year in Notes and Numbers (2017)
Day Residue (2016)
Film Hawk (2016)
Starfish Aorta Colossus (2015)
Drift and Bough (2014)
Your Day Is My Night (2014)
Same Stream Twice (2012)
Sound of a Shadow (2011)
Wind in Our Hair (2010)
The Task of the Translator (2010)
The Last Happy Day (2009)
Cuadro por cuadro (2009)
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet (2009)
XY Chromosome Project (2007)
The Small Ones (2006)
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006)
Noa, Noa (2006)
States of UnBelonging (2006)
Atalanta: 32 Years Later (2006)
Investigation of a Flame (2002)
Tornado (2002)
First Steps in a Terra Incognita (2002)
Photograph of Wind (2001)
Window Work (2000)
A Biography of Lilith (1997)
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam (1994)
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts (1991)
Sermons and Sacred Pictures (1989)
The Randy Band Film (1988)
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning (1987)
Fossil (1986)
Drawn and Quartered (1986)
Still Life with Woman and Four Objects (1986)
The Tarot (1983)
¡Despertar!
Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home
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GenderFemale
Birthday1961-08-10 (62 years old)
Birth PlaceMemphis, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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