Lynne Sachs Movies

  • 1988
    The Randy Band Film

    The Randy Band Film

    The Randy Band Film

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    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...

    The Randy Band Film
  • 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
  • 2002
    Tornado

    Tornado

    Tornado

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    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...

    Tornado
  • 2001
    Photograph of Wind

    Photograph of Wind

    Photograph of Wind

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    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...

    Photograph of Wind
  • 2006
    The Small Ones

    The Small Ones

    The Small Ones

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

    The Small Ones
  • 2021
    Maya at 24

    Maya at 24

    Maya at 24

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    Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya in 16mm black and white film, at ages 6, 16 and 24. At each iteration, Maya runs around her mother, in a circle...

    Maya at 24
  • 1970
    Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home

    Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home

    Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home

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    In July 1971, avant-garde writer and language poet Bernadette Mayer produced Memory, a multimedia project in which she shot one roll of 35mm film...

    Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home
  • 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
  • 1983
    The Tarot

    The Tarot

    The Tarot

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    Filmed on the Lower East Side of New York City and featuring Kathy Steuer.

    The Tarot
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Girl Is Presence

    Girl Is Presence

    Girl Is Presence

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

    Girl Is Presence