Lynne Sachs Filmes

  • 2009
    Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

    Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

    Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

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    I began reading Virgil's Georgics, a 1st Century epic agricultural poem, and knew immediately that I needed to create a visual equivalent about my...

    Georgic for a Forgotten Planet
  • 2006
    Noa, Noa

    Noa, Noa

    Noa, Noa

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    Over the course of three years, Lynne Sachs collaborated with her daughter Noa (from 5 to 8 years old), criss-crossing the wooded landscapes of...

    Noa, Noa
  • 1994
    Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

    Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

    Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

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    In this illuminating study of cultural contrasts, American filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her sister, Dana, travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi,...

    Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
  • 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
  • 1986
    Drawn and Quartered

    Drawn and Quartered

    Drawn and Quartered

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    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...

    Drawn and Quartered
  • 2010
    The Task of the Translator

    The Task of the Translator

    The Task of the Translator

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    Lynne Sachs pays homage to Walter Benjamin’s essay "The Task of the Translator" through three studies of the human body. First, she listens to...

    The Task of the Translator
  • 2021
    Figure and I

    Figure and I

    Figure and I

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    "Kristine Leschper wrote to me with a very intriguing proposition: create a short film in response to her song “Figure and I”. I knew...

    Figure and I
  • 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
  • 2000
    Window Work

    Window Work

    Window Work

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    A woman drinks tea, washes a window, reads the paper: simple tasks that somehow suggest a kind of quiet mystery within and beyond the image....

    Window Work
  • 2014
    Drift and Bough

    Drift and Bough

    Drift and Bough

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    Lynne Sachs spends a winter morning in Central Park shooting film in the snow. Holding her Super 8mm camera, she takes note of graphic explosions of...

    Drift and Bough
  • 2024
    This Side of Salina

    This Side of Salina

    This Side of Salina

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    Four Black women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working...

    This Side of Salina
  • 1988
    The Randy Band Film

    The Randy Band Film

    The Randy Band Film

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    In the mid 1980s, I heard Memphis's very own RANDY BAND and decided I would collaborate with their bass player Randy Chertow on a movie. Tommy Hull...

    The Randy Band Film