Lynne Sachs Movies

  • 2014
    Your Day Is My Night

    Your Day Is My Night

    Your Day Is My Night

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    Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and...

    Your Day Is My Night
  • 2024
    Contractions

    Contractions

    Contractions

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    Intimate confessions, paired with experimental choreography outside a woman’s clinic in Memphis, offer a glimpse into post Roe v. Wade America.

    Contractions
  • 2022
    Swerve

    Swerve

    Swerve

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    A food market and playground in Queens, NY becomes the site for this film inspired by Paolo Javier’s Original Brown Boy poems. The film itself...

    Swerve
  • 2018
    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

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    From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the...

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
  • 1970
    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

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    An experimental exploration of modern life’s emptiness, examining how the spectacle, the death of community, and the rise of individualism...

    Tomorrow Doesn't Exist
  • 2016
    Film Hawk

    Film Hawk

    Film Hawk

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    What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A secret weapon known as Bob Hawk. As a...

    Film Hawk
  • 2025
    Every Contact Leaves a Trace

    Every Contact Leaves a Trace

    Every Contact Leaves a Trace

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    Since 1990, filmmaker Lynne Sachs has collected 600 business cards—from a hairdresser, a therapist, a textile artist. Together they form an...

    Every Contact Leaves a Trace
  • 1991
    The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts

    The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts

    The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts

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    The winner of numerous festival prizes, this early work by Lynne Sachs is a provocative film essay on women's perspectives on their bodies in a...

    The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts
  • 2020
    Film About a Father Who

    Film About a Father Who

    Film About a Father Who

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    From 1984 to 2019, Lynne Sachs shot film of her father, a bon vivant and pioneering businessman. This documentary is her attempt to understand the...

    Film About a Father Who
  • 2019
    A Month of Single Frames

    A Month of Single Frames

    A Month of Single Frames

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    In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in...

    A Month of Single Frames
  • 2018
    The Washing Society

    The Washing Society

    The Washing Society

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    When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who's doing the washing and folding? The Washing Society brings us into New York City laundromats and the...

    The Washing Society
  • 2018
    A Morning with Jack Waters

    A Morning with Jack Waters

    A Morning with Jack Waters

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    In conversation with filmmaker Lynne Sachs, multi-disciplinary artist Jack Waters discusses his career and experiences as a part of the downtown New...

    A Morning with Jack Waters
  • 1989
    Sermons and Sacred Pictures

    Sermons and Sacred Pictures

    Sermons and Sacred Pictures

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    "An experimental documentary on Reverend L.O. Taylor, a black Baptist minister from Memphis, Tennessee who was also an inspired filmmaker with an...

    Sermons and Sacred Pictures
  • 2005
    States of UnBelonging

    States of UnBelonging

    States of UnBelonging

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    The core of this haunting meditation on war, land, the Bible, and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed...

    States of UnBelonging
  • 2002
    First Steps in a Terra Incognita

    First Steps in a Terra Incognita

    First Steps in a Terra Incognita

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    A young American woman travels to Bosnia to contemplate life there after a period of war. The camera is her being, moving quietly in and out of...

    First Steps in a Terra Incognita
  • 2021
    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

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    In a cinema letter to Jean Vigo, Lynne Sachs ponders the French filmmaker’s 1933 classic Zéro de conduite, in which school boys wage an...

    E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo
  • 1987
    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

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    Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a...

    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning
  • 2009
    The Last Happy Day

    The Last Happy Day

    The Last Happy Day

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    THE LAST HAPPY DAY is an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker...

    The Last Happy Day
  • 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
  • 1986
    Drawn and Quartered

    Drawn and Quartered

    Drawn and Quartered

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    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...

    Drawn and Quartered