Lynne Sachs Movies

  • 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!
  • 1986
    Fossil

    Fossil

    Fossil

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    The village women of Mambai in Bali, Indonesia collect sand and stone from the river. Each woman sells what she has gathered for construction...

    Fossil
  • 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
  • 2016
    Day Residue

    Day Residue

    Day Residue

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    I spent a day with my mother and stepfather shooting Super 8mm film in my childhood home in Memphis, Tennessee. Sigmund Freud believed that the...

    Day Residue
  • 2014
    Drift and Bough

    Drift and Bough

    Drift and Bough

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    Lynne Sachs spends a winter morning in Central Park shooting film in the snow. Holding her Super 8mm camera, she takes note of graphic explosions of...

    Drift and Bough
  • 1970
    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

    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...

    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist
  • 2022
    Swerve

    Swerve

    Swerve

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    A food market and playground in Queens, NY becomes the site for this film inspired by Paolo Javier’s Original Brown Boy poems. The film itself...

    Swerve
  • 2021
    Figure and I

    Figure and I

    Figure and I

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    "Kristine Leschper wrote to me with a very intriguing proposition: create a short film in response to her song “Figure and I”. I knew...

    Figure and I
  • 1988
    The Randy Band Film

    The Randy Band Film

    The Randy Band Film

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    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...

    The Randy Band Film