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Lynne SACHS

(1961- )
Nationality: American

Lynne Sachs is a filmmaker and poet living in Brooklyn. She has produced over 50 films as well as numerous live performances, installations and web projects. Sachs creates cinematic works that defy genre through the use of hybrid forms and cross-disciplinary collaboration, incorporating elements of the essay film, collage, performance, documentary and poetry. Her films explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. With each project, Lynne investigates the implicit connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself. Lynne discovered her love of filmmaking while living and studying in San Francisco. During this time, she produced her early, experimental works on celluloid which took a feminist approach to the creation of images and writing— a commitment which has grounded her body of work ever since. Sachs’s films have screened at MoMA, Wexner Center for the Arts, New York Film Festival, Sundance, Punto de Vista, and DocLisboa. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at MoMI, Ambulante, Sheffield Doc/Fest, BAFICI, Cork, Costa Rica Int’l Film Fest, Cámara Lúcida, and China Women’s Film Festival. In 2021, Edison and Prismatic Ground Film Festivals honored her body of work in the experimental and documentary fields. Tender Buttons Press published Lynne’s book Year by Year Poems (2019) and Punctum Books will publish her book Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process and the Labor of Laundry (2025) written by Sachs and playwright Lizzie Olesker.

19 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

A ROLL FOR PETER - Collective film
2016-2023 / 16mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 55' 49 / 150 €
distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server
  E-PIS-TO-LAR-Y: LETTER TO JEAN VIGO
2021 / 16mm & 35mm & Mobile phone / b&w / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 37 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  MAYA AT 24
2021 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 4' 00 / 32 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO
2020 / 16mm & HD & Mini DV & Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 74' 00 / 240 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES
2019 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 14' 00 / 60 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  CAROLEE, BARBARA AND GUNVOR
2018 / 16mm & Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 40 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  THE WASHING SOCIETY
2018 / HD / color / sound / single screen / 44' 00 / 159 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  DRIFT AND BOUGH
2014 / Super 8mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 6' 00 / 42 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT
2013 / 16mm & HD & Super 8mm & Video / color / sound / single screen / 64' 00 / 210 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  SOUND OF A SHADOW
2011 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 11' 00 / 48 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  ATALANTA: 32 YEARS LATER
2006 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 37 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME
2001 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 45' 00 / 162 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  PHOTOGRAPH OF WIND
2001 / 16mm / color-b&w / silent / single screen / 4' 00 / 32 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  WINDOW WORK
2000 / Video / color / sound / single screen / 9' 00 / 42 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  A BIOGRAPHY OF LILITH
1997 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 35' 00 / 132 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  THE HOUSE OF SCIENCE - A Museum of False Facts
1991 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 30' 00 / 116 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  SERMONS AND SACRED PICTURES
1989 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 29' 00 / 112 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  DRAWN AND QUARTERED
1986 / Double 8mm / color / silent / single screen / 4' 00 / 32 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  STILL LIFE WITH WOMAN AND FOUR OBJECTS
1986 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 4' 00 / 32 €
distribution: Digital file on server