Lynne Sachs
Director, Editor, Writer, Producer, Actor
August 10, 1961 (64 years)
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.
Known For
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| 2020 | Film About a Father Who · as Self |
| 2016 | Film Hawk · as Self |
| 2005 | States of UnBelonging · as Self |
| 2003 | Which Way Is East · as Self |
| 1991 | Movie Days · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1987 | Drawn and Quartered · as Self |
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| 2005 | States of UnBelonging · as Executive Producer |
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| 1989 | Sermons and Sacred Pictures · as Co-Producer |
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| 2020 | Film About a Father Who · as Director Of Photography |
| 2018 | Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor · as Cinematographer |
| 2014 | Drift and Bough · as Cinematographer |
| 2014 | Drift and Bough · as Story |
| 2012 | Same Stream Twice · as Cinematographer |
| 2011 | Sound of a Shadow · as Co-Director |
| 2010 | The Task of the Translator · as Cinematographer |
| 2009 | Wind in Our Hair · as Cinematographer |
| 2009 | The Last Happy Day · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | Noa, Noa · as Cinematographer |
| 2005 | States of UnBelonging · as Director Of Photography |
| 2005 | States of UnBelonging · as Sound Editor |
| 2003 | Which Way Is East · as Cinematographer |
| 2003 | Which Way Is East · as Co-Director |
| 2003 | Investigation of a Flame · as Cinematographer |
| 2001 | Photograph of Wind · as Cinematographer |
| 2000 | Window Work · as Cinematographer |
| 1991 | The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts · as Cinematographer |
| 1989 | Sermons and Sacred Pictures · as Cinematographer |
| 1987 | Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning · as Cinematographer |
| 1987 | Drawn and Quartered · as Cinematographer |
| 1986 | Still Life with Woman and Four Objects · as Cinematographer |