Lynne Sachs
Born: 1961-08-10 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Films For Freedom ... (Director)
- Every Contact Leaves a Trace as Self
2024
- Contractions ... (Director)
- This Side of Salina ... (Director)
2023
- The Jitters ... (Director)
2022
- Swerve ... (Director)
2021
- E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo ... (Director)
- Maya at 24 ... (Director)
- Figure and I ... (Director)
2020
- Film About a Father Who as Self
- Girl Is Presence ... (Director of Photography)
2019
- A Month of Single Frames ... (Editor)
2018
- ¡Despertar! ... (Cinematography)
- The Washing Society ... (Director)
- Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor ... (Director)
- A Morning with Jack Waters ... (Director)
2017
- A Year in Notes and Numbers ... (Director)
- Tip of my Tongue ... (Director)
- And Then We Marched ... (Director)
2016
- Film Hawk as Self
- Day Residue ... (Director)
2015
- Starfish Aorta Colossus ... (Director)
2014
- Your Day Is My Night ... (Producer)
- Drift and Bough ... (Director)
2012
- Same Stream Twice ... (Director)
2011
- Sound of a Shadow ... (Director)
2010
- Wind in Our Hair ... (Director)
- The Task of the Translator ... (Director)
2009
- The Last Happy Day ... (Director of Photography)
- Cuadro por cuadro ... (Director)
- Georgic for a Forgotten Planet ... (Director)
2007
- XY Chromosome Project ... (Director)
2006
- Atalanta: 32 Years Later ... (Director)
- States of UnBelonging ... (Director)
- The Small Ones ... (Director)
- Noa, Noa ... (Director)
2002
- Tornado ... (Director)
- First Steps in a Terra Incognita ... (Director)
- Investigation of a Flame ... (Director)
2001
- Photograph of Wind ... (Director)
2000
1997
- A Biography of Lilith ... (Director)
1989
- Sermons and Sacred Pictures ... (Director)
1988
- The Randy Band Film ... (Director)
1987
- Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning ... (Director)
1986
- Still Life with Woman and Four Objects ... (Director)
- Fossil ... (Director)
- Drawn and Quartered ... (Director)
1983
- The Tarot ... (Director)