Lynne Sachs
Directing
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
Directing50
movieContractions
2024
Director
The Jitters
2023
Director
movieSwerve
2022
Director
movieFigure and I
2021
Director
movieMaya at 24
2021
Director
movieGirl Is Presence
2020
Director
movieFilm About a Father Who
2020
Director
movie¡Despertar!
2018
Director
movieThe Washing Society
2018
Director
movieAnd Then We Marched
2017
Director
movieTip of my Tongue
2017
Director
movieDay Residue
2016
Director
movieStarfish Aorta Colossus
2015
Director
movieDrift and Bough
2014
Director
movieYour Day Is My Night
2014
Director
movieSame Stream Twice
2012
Director
movieSound of a Shadow
2011
Director
movieWind in Our Hair
2010
Director
movieThe Last Happy Day
2009
Director
movieXY Chromosome Project
2007
Director
movieThe Small Ones
2006
Director
movieNoa, Noa
2006
Director
movieStates of UnBelonging
2005
Director
movieTornado
2002
Director
moviePhotograph of Wind
2001
Director
movieWindow Work
2000
Director
movieA Biography of Lilith
1997
Director
movieThe Randy Band Film
1988
Director
movieFossil
1986
Director
movieDrawn and Quartered
1986
Director
movieThe Tarot
1983
Director
Acting8
movieTomorrow Doesn't Exist
Self (Voice)
Writing7
Camera5
movieEvery Contact Leaves a Trace
2025
Director of Photography
movieGirl Is Presence
2020
Director of Photography
movieFilm About a Father Who
2020
Director of Photography
movieThe Last Happy Day
2009
Director of Photography
movieStates of UnBelonging
2005
Director of Photography
Production5
movieContractions
2024
Producer
movieYour Day Is My Night
2014
Producer
movieStates of UnBelonging
2005
Executive Producer, Producer
Editing3
Crew1
movie¡Despertar!
2018
Cinematography
Sound1
movieStates of UnBelonging
2005
Sound Editor