Lynne Sachs is an American experimental documentary filmmaker whose "essay films" typically focus on the subject of war. In addition to making films, she also produces installations and web projects. Plus, she also performs in the mixed-media performance group The XY Chromosome Project with her partner Mark Street and has served as an editor of the Millennium Film Journal.
Learn more about this filmmaker at her official website.
The Task of the Translator (2010)
Wind in Our Hair (2010)
The Last Happy Day (2009)
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet (2009)
The Small Ones (2007)
States of UnBelonging (2006)
Atalanta: 32 Years Later (2006)
Noa, Noa (2006) (with Noa Street-Sachs)
Tornado (2002)
Photograph of Wind (2001)
Investigation of a Flame: A Portrait of the Catonsville Nine (2001)
Window Work (2000)
A Biography of Lilith (1997)
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam (1994) (with Dana Sachs)
The House of Science: a museum of false facts (1991)
Sermons and Sacred Pictures: the life and work of Reverend L.O. Taylor (1989)
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning (1987)
Drawn and Quartered (1987)
Still Life With Woman and Four Objects (1986)
In addition to their monthly screenings, the Coalition founded what was initially called either the Festival of Experimental Film or the Experimental Film Festival. The first one was most likely in 1984.
The second annual Chicago Underground Film Festival was held in 1995, at multiple locations in the city, from Thursday, July 20 to Sunday, July 23. The festival opened on July 20th at the International Cinema Museum with the film What About Me?, directed by Rachel Amodeo.
The 26th annual Images Festival will be taking over Toronto on April 11-20 with an epic series of experimental film screenings, media installations, expanded cinema performances, workshops, artist talks and tons more.
The 51st annual Ann Arbor Film Festival features films by Kevin Jerome Everson, Lynne Sachs, Kent Lambert, Jodie Mack, Jack Smith and tons more.
The 2nd annual Migrating Forms experimental video festival features work by Kevin Jerome Everson, Kent Lambert, Peggy Ahwesh and more.
The Film-makers’ Cooperative’s annual end-of-year benefit will include screenings of underground films by Mike Kuchar, Jimmy Kinder, Seth Mitter and more.
Experimental documentarian Lynne Sachs will be presenting a combination screening and spoken word performance at the historic Other Cinema screening series.
This year the PDX Film Festival, which is run by Peripheral Produce distributors, will roll out films by Vanessa Renwick, James Fotopoulos and Brett Kashmere.
My apologies to Lynne Sachs. I had to step out of a screening of her Investigation of a Flame to go watch a demonstration by Fred Phelps’ anti-gay group.