Lynne Sachs Movies
- 2020
My Body, Your Body, Our Bodies: Somatic Cinema at Home and in the World - an Expanded Cinema Screening and Talk by Lynne Sachs
My Body, Your Body, Our Bodies: Somatic Cinema at Home and in the World - an Expanded Cinema Screening and Talk by Lynne Sachs02020HD
How do we negotiate the photographing of images that contain the body? What experiential, political or aesthetic contingencies do we bring to both...
- 2002
Tornado
Tornado02002HD
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...
- 2002
First Steps in a Terra Incognita
First Steps in a Terra Incognita02002HD
A young American woman travels to Bosnia to contemplate life there after a period of war. The camera is her being, moving quietly in and out of...
- 2020
Film About a Father Who
Film About a Father Who62020HD
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...
- 1994
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam61994HD
In this illuminating study of cultural contrasts, American filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her sister, Dana, travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi,...
- 2017
A Year in Notes and Numbers
A Year in Notes and Numbers02017HD
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...
- 2006
States of UnBelonging
States of UnBelonging02006HD
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...
- 2018
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor5.62018HD
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the...
- 2019
A Month of Single Frames
A Month of Single Frames6.82019HD
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...
- 1986
Drawn and Quartered
Drawn and Quartered61986HD
Optically printed images of a man and a woman fragmented by a film frame that is divided into four distinct sections. An experiment in form/content...
- 1991
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts01991HD
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...
- 2018
A Morning with Jack Waters
A Morning with Jack Waters02018HD
In conversation with filmmaker Lynne Sachs, multi-disciplinary artist Jack Waters discusses his career and experiences as a part of the downtown New...
- 2024
Contractions
Contractions02024HD
Intimate confessions, paired with experimental choreography outside a woman’s clinic in Memphis, offer a glimpse into post Roe v. Wade America.
- 2016
Film Hawk
Film Hawk4.92016HD
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...
- 2002
Investigation of a Flame
Investigation of a Flame02002HD
On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters led by Daniel and Philip Berrigan, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed...
- 2014
Your Day Is My Night
Your Day Is My Night5.52014HD
Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and...
- 1987
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning01987HD
Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a...
- 2012
Same Stream Twice
Same Stream Twice02012HD
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...
- 2017
And Then We Marched
And Then We Marched02017HD
Lynne shoots Super 8mm film of the Jan. 21 Women’s March in Washington, D.C. and intercuts this recent footage with archival material of early...
- 1970
Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home
Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home01970HD
A film by Lynne Sachs