About

Known credits:
66
Birthday:
1961-08-10
Place of birth:
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Website:
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Lynne Sachs

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
2020 Film About a Father Who Actor Self 59
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2016 Film Hawk Actor Self 58
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2000 Window Work Actor 59
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1994 Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam Actor 59
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1991 The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts Actor N/A
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Directing
2024 Contractions Directing Director N/A
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2022 Swerve Directing Director N/A
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2021 Figure and I Directing Director N/A
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2021 Maya at 24 Directing Director N/A
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2021 E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo Directing Director N/A
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2020 Girl Is Presence Directing Director N/A
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2020 My Body, Your Body, Our Bodies: Somatic Cinema at Home and in the World - an Expanded Cinema Screening and Talk by Lynne Sachs Directing Director N/A
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2020 Film About a Father Who Directing Director 59
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2019 A Month of Single Frames Directing Director 59
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2018 ¡Despertar! Directing Director N/A
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2018 A Morning with Jack Waters Directing Director N/A
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2018 The Washing Society Directing Director N/A
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2018 Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor Directing Director 59
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2017 And Then We Marched Directing Director N/A
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2017 Tip of my Tongue Directing Director N/A
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2017 A Year in Notes and Numbers Directing Director N/A
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2016 Day Residue Directing Director N/A
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2015 Starfish Aorta Colossus Directing Director N/A
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2014 Drift and Bough Directing Director N/A
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2014 Your Day Is My Night Directing Director 59
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2012 Same Stream Twice Directing Director N/A
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2011 Sound of a Shadow Directing Director N/A
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2010 Wind in Our Hair Directing Director N/A
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2010 The Task of the Translator Directing Director N/A
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2009 Georgic for a Forgotten Planet Directing Director N/A
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2009 The Last Happy Day Directing Director N/A
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2009 Cuadro por cuadro Directing Director N/A
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2007 XY Chromosome Project Directing Director N/A
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2006 The Small Ones Directing Director N/A
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2006 Atalanta: 32 Years Later Directing Director N/A
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2006 Noa, Noa Directing Director N/A
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2006 States of UnBelonging Directing Director N/A
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2002 Investigation of a Flame Directing Director N/A
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2002 First Steps in a Terra Incognita Directing Director N/A
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2002 Tornado Directing Director N/A
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2001 Photograph of Wind Directing Director N/A
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2000 Window Work Directing Director 59
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1997 A Biography of Lilith Directing Director N/A
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1994 Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam Directing Director 59
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1991 The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts Directing Director N/A
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1989 Sermons and Sacred Pictures Directing Director N/A
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1988 The Randy Band Film Directing Director N/A
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1987 Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning Directing Director N/A
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1986 Fossil Directing Director N/A
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1986 Drawn and Quartered Directing Director 59
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1986 Still Life with Woman and Four Objects Directing Director N/A
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1983 The Tarot Directing Director N/A
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Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2020 Film About a Father Who Writing Writer 59
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2019 A Month of Single Frames Writing Writer 59
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2018 The Washing Society Writing Writer N/A
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2009 The Last Happy Day Writing Writer N/A
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1994 Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam Writing Writer 59
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Production
2021 E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo Production Producer N/A
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2014 Your Day Is My Night Production Producer 59
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Camera
2020 Girl Is Presence Camera Director of Photography N/A
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2020 Film About a Father Who Camera Director of Photography 59
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2009 The Last Happy Day Camera Director of Photography N/A
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Crew
2018 ¡Despertar! Crew Cinematography N/A
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Editing
2019 A Month of Single Frames Editing Editor 59
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2009 The Last Happy Day Editing Editor N/A
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