Lynne Sachs Movies

  • 1986
    Still Life with Woman and Four Objects

    Still Life with Woman and Four Objects

    Still Life with Woman and Four Objects

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    A film portrait that falls somewhere between a painting and a prose poem, a look at a woman’s daily routines and thoughts via an exploration of...

    Still Life with Woman and Four Objects
  • 2020
    Film About a Father Who

    Film About a Father Who

    Film About a Father Who

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    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...

    Film About a Father Who
  • 2010
    The Task of the Translator

    The Task of the Translator

    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...

    The Task of the Translator
  • 2012
    Same Stream Twice

    Same Stream Twice

    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...

    Same Stream Twice
  • 2002
    Investigation of a Flame

    Investigation of a Flame

    Investigation of a Flame

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    On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters led by Daniel and Philip Berrigan, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed...

    Investigation of a Flame
  • 2009
    Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

    Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

    Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

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    I began reading Virgil's Georgics, a 1st Century epic agricultural poem, and knew immediately that I needed to create a visual equivalent about my...

    Georgic for a Forgotten Planet
  • 2015
    Starfish Aorta Colossus

    Starfish Aorta Colossus

    Starfish Aorta Colossus

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    Poetry watches film. Film reads poetry. Paolo Javier's text is a catalyst for the digital sculpting of an 8mm Kodachrome canvas.

    Starfish Aorta Colossus
  • 1987
    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

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    Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a...

    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning
  • 2000
    Window Work

    Window Work

    Window Work

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    A woman drinks tea, washes a window, reads the paper: simple tasks that somehow suggest a kind of quiet mystery within and beyond the image....

    Window Work
  • 2018
    ¡Despertar!

    ¡Despertar!

    ¡Despertar!

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    On June 28, 2018, laundry workers from El Barrio in New York City marched to the laundromat where they work. Their community and the Laundry Workers...

    ¡Despertar!
  • 2002
    First Steps in a Terra Incognita

    First Steps in a Terra Incognita

    First Steps in a Terra Incognita

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    A young American woman travels to Bosnia to contemplate life there after a period of war. The camera is her being, moving quietly in and out of...

    First Steps in a Terra Incognita
  • 1997
    A Biography of Lilith

    A Biography of Lilith

    A Biography of Lilith

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    In a lively mix of off-beat narrative, collage and memoir, A Biography of Lilith updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman...

    A Biography of Lilith
  • 2011
    Sound of a Shadow

    Sound of a Shadow

    Sound of a Shadow

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    A wabi sabi summer in Japan: Observing that which is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete produces a series of visual haiku in teeming street life;...

    Sound of a Shadow
  • 2007
    XY Chromosome Project

    XY Chromosome Project

    XY Chromosome Project

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    The X Y Chromosome Project is the creation of artists Lynne Sachs and Mark Street. In addition to our two daughters, we make films and performances...

    XY Chromosome Project
  • 2017
    Tip of my Tongue

    Tip of my Tongue

    Tip of my Tongue

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    To mark her 50th birthday, filmmaker Lynne Sachs gathers a group of her contemporaries—all New Yorkers but originally hailing from all corners...

    Tip of my Tongue
  • 2006
    The Small Ones

    The Small Ones

    The Small Ones

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    During World War II, the United States Army hired Lynne Sachs’ cousin, Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones, small and large, of dead...

    The Small Ones
  • 2006
    Atalanta: 32 Years Later

    Atalanta: 32 Years Later

    Atalanta: 32 Years Later

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    A retelling of the age-old fairy tale of the beautiful princess in search of the perfect prince. In 1974, Marlo Thomas’ hip, liberal celebrity...

    Atalanta: 32 Years Later
  • 2001
    Photograph of Wind

    Photograph of Wind

    Photograph of Wind

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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...

    Photograph of Wind
  • 2009
    Cuadro por cuadro

    Cuadro por cuadro

    Cuadro por cuadro

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    A documentary of a workshop taught by the filmmaker at the Foundacion D'Arte Contemporaneo, an artist's collective in Montevideo, Uruguay. Workshop...

    Cuadro por cuadro
  • 2010
    Wind in Our Hair

    Wind in Our Hair

    Wind in Our Hair

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    Inspired by the short stories of Julio Cortázar, Lynne Sachs creates an experimental narrative about a group of girls on the verge of...

    Wind in Our Hair