Lynne Sachs Movies
- 2014
Your Day Is My Night
Your Day Is My Night5.52014HD
Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and...
- 2016
Film Hawk
Film Hawk4.92016HD
What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A secret weapon known as Bob Hawk. As a...
- 2024
Contractions
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Intimate confessions, paired with experimental choreography outside a woman’s clinic in Memphis, offer a glimpse into post Roe v. Wade America.
- 2018
The Washing Society
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When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who's doing the washing and folding? The Washing Society brings us into New York City laundromats and the...
- 2020
Film About a Father Who
Film About a Father Who62020HD
From 1984 to 2019, Lynne Sachs shot film of her father, a bon vivant and pioneering businessman. This documentary is her attempt to understand the...
- 1989
Sermons and Sacred Pictures
Sermons and Sacred Pictures01989HD
"An experimental documentary on Reverend L.O. Taylor, a black Baptist minister from Memphis, Tennessee who was also an inspired filmmaker with an...
- 1991
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts01991HD
The winner of numerous festival prizes, this early work by Lynne Sachs is a provocative film essay on women's perspectives on their bodies in a...
- 2006
States of UnBelonging
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The core of this haunting meditation on war, land, the Bible, and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed...
- 2002
Tornado
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A tornado is a spinning cyclone of nature. It stampedes like an angry bull through a tranquil pasture of blue violets and upright blades of grass. A...
- 2018
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor5.62018HD
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the...
- 2015
Starfish Aorta Colossus
Starfish Aorta Colossus02015HD
Poetry watches film. Film reads poetry. Paolo Javier's text is a catalyst for the digital sculpting of an 8mm Kodachrome canvas.
- 2006
Noa, Noa
Noa, Noa02006HD
Over the course of three years, Lynne Sachs collaborated with her daughter Noa (from 5 to 8 years old), criss-crossing the wooded landscapes of...
- 2018
A Morning with Jack Waters
A Morning with Jack Waters02018HD
In conversation with filmmaker Lynne Sachs, multi-disciplinary artist Jack Waters discusses his career and experiences as a part of the downtown New...
- 1986
Drawn and Quartered
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Optically printed images of a man and a woman fragmented by a film frame that is divided into four distinct sections. An experiment in form/content...
- 1970
Tomorrow Doesn't Exist
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An experimental exploration of modern life’s emptiness, examining how the spectacle, the death of community, and the rise of individualism...
- 2009
The Last Happy Day
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THE LAST HAPPY DAY is an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker...
- 1994
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam61994HD
In this illuminating study of cultural contrasts, American filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her sister, Dana, travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi,...
- 1988
The Randy Band Film
The Randy Band Film01988HD
In the mid 1980s, I heard Memphis's very own RANDY BAND and decided I would collaborate with their bass player Randy Chertow on a movie. Tommy Hull...
- 2012
Same Stream Twice
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My daughter's name is Maya. I've been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. As I watch her growing up, spinning like a top...
- 2010
The Task of the Translator
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Lynne Sachs pays homage to Walter Benjamin’s essay "The Task of the Translator" through three studies of the human body. First, she listens to...