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Atalanta 32 Years Later
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
2006,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:00
In 1974, Marlo Thomas' hip, liberal celebrity gang created a feminist version of the myth of Atalanta for mainstream TV's "Free to Be You and Me". Thirty-two years later, Sachs transforms the age-old story of... more info
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Biography of Lilith
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
1997,
16mm,
Color,
00:35:00
In a lively mix of off-beat narrative, collage and memoir, Biography of Lilith updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman and for some, the first feminist. Lilith's betrayal by Adam in ... more info
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Cuadro por Cuadro
directed by Lynne Sachs
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00:08:00
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Cuadro por Cuadro (Frame by Frame) made with Lynne Sachs
directed by Lynne Sachs and Lynne Sachs
USA, Documentary,
2009,
00:08:00
A documentary of a workshop taught by the filmmaker at the Fundacion D’Arte Contemporaneo, an artist’s collective in Montevideo, Uruguay. Workshop participants pore over discarded films frame by frame.... more info
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Drawn and Quartered
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
1987,
16mm,
Color,
Silent,
00:04:00
Lynne and her friend John shot this film with a Regular 8 camera on a roof in San Francisco, literally creating a "drawn and quartered" image. Mostly, they each exist in their own private domains, separated b... more info
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Following The Object to Its Logical Beginning
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
1987,
16mm,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:09:00
A woman observes five undramatic moments in a man's life, as if he were one of Eadweard Muybridge scientific photo experiments. A study in visual obsession and a twist on the notion of the "gaze".
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Georgic for a Forgotten Planet
directed by Lynne Sachs
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00:11:00
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House of Science: a museum of false facts, The
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
1991,
16mm,
Color,
Optical Monaural,
00:30:00
Here film becomes the place Sachs’ pulls together the work she was doing in the early 1990’s in performance, installation and art. Sachs uses visual and aural collage techniques to combine the theoretical... more info
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Noa, Noa
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
2006,
16mm,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:08:00
Lynne collaborated with her daughter Noa, from age five to eight, on this film as they criss-crossed the woods of Brooklyn with costumes and cameras in their hands. Noa's grand finale is her own rendition of ... more info
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Photograph of Wind
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
2001,
16mm,
Color,
Silent,
00:04:00
"My daughter's name is Maya. I've been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. As I wntch her growing up, spinning like a top around me, I realize that her childhood is not something I can... more info
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Small Ones, The
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
2007,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:00
During WWII, the US Army hired Sach's cousin, Dr. Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones--small and large--of dead American Soldiers. This elliptical work, which resonates as an anti-war meditation, is compo... more info
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Sound of a Shadow
directed by Lynne Sachs
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00:08:00
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Still Life With Woman and Four Objects
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
1986,
16mm,
B&W,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:00
This film portrait falls somewhere between a painting and a prose poem. Sachs looks at a fictional woman's daily routines and thoughts. By interweaving threads of history and fiction, the film also becomes a ... more info
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The Last Happy Day
directed by Lynne Sachs
, Documentary,
2011,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
01:08:00
The Last Happy Day is an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker Lynne Sachs. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish backg... more info
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The Task of the Translator
directed by Lynne Sachs
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00:10:00
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Tornado
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
2002,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:00
Lynne shot the cine-poem on September 12, 2001 in a park near her home in Brooklyn where much of the paper and soot from the burning World Trade Center were still falling to the ground. Her fingers obsessivel... more info
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Which Way is East - Notebooks from Vietnam
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Documentary,
1994,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:33:00
When two American sisters travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history. Lynne and Dana Sachs' travel diary... more info
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Wind in our Hair
directed by Lynne Sachs
, Experimental,
16mm, super 8, mini DV,
color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:42:00
Inspired by the stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, yet blended with the realities of contemporary Argentina, “Wind in Our Hair” is an experimental narrative directed by New York filmmaker Lynne ... more info
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Window Work
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
2000,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:09:00
A woman drinks tea, washes a window and reads the paper -- simple tasks that suggest a quiet mystery within and beyond the image. She listens to a symphony of crickets, Jangling toys, the roar of a jet, and c... more info
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XY Chromosome Project
directed by Lynne Sachs
USA, Experimental,
2006,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:12:00
"Sachs and Street engage in visual and aural dialogue to explore the spaces between abstraction and representation. Street's tactile images use handpainted found footage and camera-less films like luminous pa... more info
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