Lynne Sachs Movies

A tornado is a spinning cyclone of nature. It stampedes like an angry bull through a tranquil pasture of blue violets and upright blades of grass. A...

I spent a day with my mother and stepfather shooting Super 8mm film in my childhood home in Memphis, Tennessee. Sigmund Freud believed that the...

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...

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

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...

My daughter’s name is Maya. I’ve been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. As I watch her growing up, spinning...

During World War II, the United States Army hired Lynne Sachs’ cousin, Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones, small and large, of dead...

A documentary of a workshop taught by the filmmaker at the Foundacion D'Arte Contemporaneo, an artist's collective in Montevideo, Uruguay. Workshop...

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...

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...

During the 2020 global pandemic, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her daughter Noa collaborated with Anne Lesley Selcer to create Girl is Presence. The work...

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