Lynne Sachs Movies

  • 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
  • 2007
    XY Chromosome Project

    XY Chromosome Project

    XY Chromosome Project

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    The X Y Chromosome Project is the creation of artists Lynne Sachs and Mark Street. In addition to our two daughters, we make films and performances...

    XY Chromosome Project
  • 1986
    Fossil

    Fossil

    Fossil

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    The village women of Mambai in Bali, Indonesia collect sand and stone from the river. Each woman sells what she has gathered for construction...

    Fossil
  • 2002
    First Steps in a Terra Incognita

    First Steps in a Terra Incognita

    First Steps in a Terra Incognita

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    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...

    First Steps in a Terra Incognita
  • 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
  • 2021
    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

    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...

    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
  • 2018
    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    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...

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
  • 2015
    Starfish Aorta Colossus

    Starfish Aorta Colossus

    Starfish Aorta Colossus

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    Poetry watches film. Film reads poetry. Paolo Javier's text is a catalyst for the digital sculpting of an 8mm Kodachrome canvas.

    Starfish Aorta Colossus
  • 1970
    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

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    An experimental exploration of modern life’s emptiness, examining how the spectacle, the death of community, and the rise of individualism...

    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist
  • 2023
    The Jitters

    The Jitters

    The Jitters

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    A woman and a man shimmy nude across a bed while their three pet 20-year old water frogs wiggle in their nearby tank, all celebrating who they are...

    The Jitters
  • 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