Lynne Sachs Movies
- 1986
Still Life with Woman and Four Objects
Still Life with Woman and Four Objects01986HD
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...
- 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...
- 2010
The Task of the Translator
The Task of the Translator02010HD
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...
- 2012
Same Stream Twice
Same Stream Twice02012HD
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...
- 2002
Investigation of a Flame
Investigation of a Flame02002HD
On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters led by Daniel and Philip Berrigan, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed...
- 2009
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet02009HD
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...
- 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.
- 1987
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning01987HD
Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a...
- 2000
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....
- 2018
¡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...
- 2002
First Steps in a Terra Incognita
First Steps in a Terra Incognita02002HD
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...
- 1997
A Biography of Lilith
A Biography of Lilith01997HD
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...
- 2011
Sound of a Shadow
Sound of a Shadow02011HD
A wabi sabi summer in Japan: Observing that which is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete produces a series of visual haiku in teeming street life;...
- 2007
XY Chromosome Project
XY Chromosome Project02007HD
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...
- 2017
Tip of my Tongue
Tip of my Tongue02017HD
To mark her 50th birthday, filmmaker Lynne Sachs gathers a group of her contemporaries—all New Yorkers but originally hailing from all corners...
- 2006
The Small Ones
The Small Ones02006HD
During World War II, the United States Army hired Lynne Sachs’ cousin, Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones, small and large, of dead...
- 2006
Atalanta: 32 Years Later
Atalanta: 32 Years Later02006HD
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...
- 2001
Photograph of Wind
Photograph of Wind02001HD
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...
- 2009
Cuadro por cuadro
Cuadro por cuadro02009HD
A documentary of a workshop taught by the filmmaker at the Foundacion D'Arte Contemporaneo, an artist's collective in Montevideo, Uruguay. Workshop...
- 2010
Wind in Our Hair
Wind in Our Hair02010HD
Inspired by the short stories of Julio Cortázar, Lynne Sachs creates an experimental narrative about a group of girls on the verge of...