Lynne Sachs
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. Stron…
Known For
A Month of Single Frames
Writer
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
Director
Your Day Is My Night
Producer
Film About a Father Who
Self
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
Drawn and Quartered
Director
The Last Happy Day
Director of Photography
Window Work
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Filmography
Acting (7)
Crew (51)
Movies (51)
Every Contact Leaves a Trace
2025Director
Contractions
2024Director
Contractions
2024Producer
This Side of Salina
2024Director
The Jitters
2023Director
Swerve
2022Director
Maya at 24
2021Director
Figure and I
2021Director
E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
2021Director
Film About a Father Who
2020Director of Photography
Girl Is Presence
2020Director of Photography
A Month of Single Frames
2019Writer
A Morning with Jack Waters
2018Director
The Washing Society
2018Director
¡Despertar!
2018Cinematography
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018Director
A Year in Notes and Numbers
2017Director
And Then We Marched
2017Director
Tip of my Tongue
2017Director
Day Residue
2016Director
Starfish Aorta Colossus
2015Director
Drift and Bough
2014Director
Your Day Is My Night
2014Producer
Same Stream Twice
2012Director
Sound of a Shadow
2011Director
The Task of the Translator
2010Director
Wind in Our Hair
2010Director
The Last Happy Day
2009Director of Photography
Cuadro por cuadro
2009Director
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet
2009Director
XY Chromosome Project
2007Director
States of UnBelonging
2006Director
The Small Ones
2006Director
Atalanta: 32 Years Later
2006Director
Noa, Noa
2006Director
First Steps in a Terra Incognita
2002Director
Tornado
2002Director
Investigation of a Flame
2002Director
Photograph of Wind
2001Director
Window Work
2000Director
A Biography of Lilith
1997Director
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
1994Director
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
1991Director
Sermons and Sacred Pictures
1989Director
The Randy Band Film
1988Director
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning
1987Director
Still Life with Woman and Four Objects
1986Director
Fossil
1986Director
Drawn and Quartered
1986Director
The Tarot
1983Director
Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home
Director
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