Lynne Sachs

ActorDirectorCinematographerProducerWriter Aug 10 (age 64) Memphis, Tennessee, USA 1983–2025 (42 year career)

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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. Stron…

Known For

Film

A Month of Single Frames

Director

Film

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

Director

Film

Your Day Is My Night

Director

Film

Film About a Father Who

Self

Film

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

6.0 1994

Film

Drawn and Quartered

Director

Film

The Last Happy Day

Director

Film

Window Work

4.0 2000

Filmography

Acting (7)

Movies (7)

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

2025

as Self

Film About a Father Who

as Self

Film Hawk

as Self

Window Work

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

1994

6.0

The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts

1991

Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

as Self (Voice)

Crew (67)

Movies (67)

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

2025

Director

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

2025

Director of Photography

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

2025

Producer

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

2025

Writer

Contractions

2024

Director

Contractions

2024

Producer

This Side of Salina

2024

Director

The Jitters

2023

Director

Swerve

2022

Director

Maya at 24

2021

Director

Figure and I

2021

Director

E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

2021

Director

E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

2021

Producer

Film About a Father Who

2020

Director

6.0

Film About a Father Who

2020

Director of Photography

6.0

Film About a Father Who

2020

Writer

6.0

Girl Is Presence

2020

Director

Girl Is Presence

2020

Director of Photography

A Month of Single Frames

2019

Director

6.8

A Month of Single Frames

2019

Editor

6.8

A Month of Single Frames

2019

Writer

6.8

A Morning with Jack Waters

2018

Director

The Washing Society

2018

Director

The Washing Society

2018

Writer

¡Despertar!

2018

Cinematography

¡Despertar!

2018

Director

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

2018

Director

5.6

A Year in Notes and Numbers

2017

Director

And Then We Marched

2017

Director

Tip of my Tongue

2017

Director

Day Residue

2016

Director

Starfish Aorta Colossus

2015

Director

Drift and Bough

2014

Director

Your Day Is My Night

Director

Your Day Is My Night

Producer

Same Stream Twice

Director

Sound of a Shadow

2011

Director

The Task of the Translator

2010

Director

Wind in Our Hair

2010

Director

The Last Happy Day

2009

Director

5.0

The Last Happy Day

2009

Director of Photography

The Last Happy Day

Editor

The Last Happy Day

Writer

Cuadro por cuadro

Director

Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

2009

Director

XY Chromosome Project

2007

Director

States of UnBelonging

2006

Director

The Small Ones

2006

Director

Atalanta: 32 Years Later

2006

Director

Noa, Noa

2006

Director

First Steps in a Terra Incognita

2002

Director

Tornado

2002

Director

Investigation of a Flame

2002

Director

Photograph of Wind

2001

Director

Window Work

2000

Director

4.0

A Biography of Lilith

1997

Director

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

1994

Director

6.0

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

1994

Writer

6.0

The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts

1991

Director

Sermons and Sacred Pictures

1989

Director

The Randy Band Film

1988

Director

Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

1987

Director

Still Life with Woman and Four Objects

1986

Director

Fossil

1986

Director

Drawn and Quartered

1986

Director

6.0

The Tarot

1983

Director

Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home

Director