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 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 …

Directed

1. A Month of Single Frames (2019) — Director
2. Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor (2018) — Director
3. Your Day Is My Night (2014) — Director
4. Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam (1994) — Director
5. Investigation of a Flame (2002) — Director
6. Drawn and Quartered (1986) — Director
7. The Last Happy Day (2009) — Director
8. Window Work (2000) — Director
9. Film About a Father Who (2020) — Director
10. E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo (2021) — Director
11. Maya at 24 (2021) — Director
12. Swerve (2022) — Director
13. Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home — Director
14. Fossil (1986) — Director
15. The Tarot (1983) — Director
16. Figure and I (2021) — Director
17. Drift and Bough (2014) — Director
18. Photograph of Wind (2001) — Director
19. The Small Ones (2006) — Director
20. A Biography of Lilith (1997) — Director
21. Starfish Aorta Colossus (2015) — Director
22. Contractions (2024) — Director
23. Sound of a Shadow (2011) — Director
24. Tornado (2002) — Director
25. Cuadro por cuadro (2009) — Director
26. Same Stream Twice (2012) — Director
27. Atalanta: 32 Years Later (2006) — Director
28. Georgic for a Forgotten Planet (2009) — Director
29. First Steps in a Terra Incognita (2002) — Director
30. Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning (1987) — Director
31. Noa, Noa (2006) — Director
32. Still Life with Woman and Four Objects (1986) — Director
33. The Task of the Translator (2010) — Director
34. States of UnBelonging (2005) — Director
35. The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts (1991) — Director
36. Sermons and Sacred Pictures (1989) — Director
37. Tip of my Tongue (2017) — Director
38. XY Chromosome Project (2007) — Director
39. Day Residue (2016) — Director
40. Wind in Our Hair (2010) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Film Hawk (2016) — Self
2. Film About a Father Who (2020) — Self
3. Window Work (2000)
4. Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam (1994)
5. The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts (1991)
6. Tomorrow Doesn't Exist — Self (Voice)
7. Every Contact Leaves a Trace (2025) — Self
8. States of UnBelonging (2005) — Self