Lynne Sachs Movies
- 2016
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...
- 2024
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.
- 2002
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...
- 2014
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...
- 2020
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...
- 2006
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...
- 2019
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...
- 2018
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...
- 1991
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...
- 1989
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...
- 2012
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...
- 1986
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...
- 1970
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...
- 2002
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...
- 2020
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...
- 2018
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...
- 2017
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...
- 1983
The Tarot
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Filmed on the Lower East Side of New York City and featuring Kathy Steuer.
- 1997
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...
- 2021
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...