Lynne Sachs

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1961-08-10 (64 years old)

Place of Birth

Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Lynne Sachs

Biography

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 ...

Production

2014

2021

Maya at 24

as Director

2022

Swerve

as Director

2009

The Last Happy Day

as Director of Photography

2009

2020

Girl Is Presence

as Director of Photography

1986

Fossil

as Director

1983

The Tarot

as Director

2021

Figure and I

as Director

2014

Drift and Bough

as Director

2001

2006

The Small Ones

as Director

1997

2014

2024

Contractions

as Director

2020

Film About a Father Who

as Director of Photography

2006

Noa, Noa

as Director

2012

2009

2006

2000

Window Work

as Director

1986

2009

2011

2002

Tornado

as Director

2017

Tip of my Tongue

as Director

2007

2016

Day Residue

as Director

2010

Wind in Our Hair

as Director

1988

2018

2018

¡Despertar!

as Cinematography

2018

¡Despertar!

as Director

2017

2018

2009

2020

Girl Is Presence

as Director

2024

Contractions

as Producer

2023

The Jitters

as Director

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