Lynne Sachs Movies

  • 2016
    Film Hawk

    Film Hawk

    Film Hawk

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    What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A secret weapon known as Bob Hawk. As a...

    Film Hawk
  • 2024
    Contractions

    Contractions

    Contractions

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    Intimate confessions, paired with experimental choreography outside a woman’s clinic in Memphis, offer a glimpse into post Roe v. Wade America.

    Contractions
  • 2002
    Tornado

    Tornado

    Tornado

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    A tornado is a spinning cyclone of nature. It stampedes like an angry bull through a tranquil pasture of blue violets and upright blades of grass. A...

    Tornado
  • 2014
    Your Day Is My Night

    Your Day Is My Night

    Your Day Is My Night

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    Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and...

    Your Day Is My Night
  • 2020
    Film About a Father Who

    Film About a Father Who

    Film About a Father Who

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    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...

    Film About a Father Who
  • 2006
    States of UnBelonging

    States of UnBelonging

    States of UnBelonging

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    The core of this haunting meditation on war, land, the Bible, and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed...

    States of UnBelonging
  • 2019
    A Month of Single Frames

    A Month of Single Frames

    A Month of Single Frames

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    In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in...

    A Month of Single Frames
  • 2018
    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

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    From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the...

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
  • 1991
    The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts

    The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts

    The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts

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    The winner of numerous festival prizes, this early work by Lynne Sachs is a provocative film essay on women's perspectives on their bodies in a...

    The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
  • 1989
    Sermons and Sacred Pictures

    Sermons and Sacred Pictures

    Sermons and Sacred Pictures

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    "An experimental documentary on Reverend L.O. Taylor, a black Baptist minister from Memphis, Tennessee who was also an inspired filmmaker with an...

    Sermons and Sacred Pictures
  • 2012
    Same Stream Twice

    Same Stream Twice

    Same Stream Twice

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    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...

    Same Stream Twice
  • 1986
    Still Life with Woman and Four Objects

    Still Life with Woman and Four Objects

    Still Life with Woman and Four Objects

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    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...

    Still Life with Woman and Four Objects
  • 1970
    Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home

    Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home

    Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home

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    In July 1971, avant-garde writer and language poet Bernadette Mayer produced Memory, a multimedia project in which she shot one roll of 35mm film...

    Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home
  • 2002
    Investigation of a Flame

    Investigation of a Flame

    Investigation of a Flame

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    On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters led by Daniel and Philip Berrigan, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed...

    Investigation of a Flame
  • 2020
    Girl Is Presence

    Girl Is Presence

    Girl Is Presence

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    During the 2020 global pandemic, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her daughter Noa collaborated with Anne Lesley Selcer to create Girl is Presence. The work...

    Girl Is Presence
  • 2018
    A Morning with Jack Waters

    A Morning with Jack Waters

    A Morning with Jack Waters

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    In conversation with filmmaker Lynne Sachs, multi-disciplinary artist Jack Waters discusses his career and experiences as a part of the downtown New...

    A Morning with Jack Waters
  • 2017
    A Year in Notes and Numbers

    A Year in Notes and Numbers

    A Year in Notes and Numbers

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    A year’s worth of to-do lists confronts the unavoidable numbers that are part and parcel of an annual visit to the doctor. The quotidian and...

    A Year in Notes and Numbers
  • 1983
    The Tarot

    The Tarot

    The Tarot

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    Filmed on the Lower East Side of New York City and featuring Kathy Steuer.

    The Tarot
  • 1997
    A Biography of Lilith

    A Biography of Lilith

    A Biography of Lilith

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    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...

    A Biography of Lilith
  • 2021
    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

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    In a cinema letter to Jean Vigo, Lynne Sachs ponders the French filmmaker’s 1933 classic Zéro de conduite, in which school boys wage an...

    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo