Lynne Sachs

About Lynne Sachs

Who is it?: Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Birth Day: August 10, 1961
Birth Place: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Lynne Sachs

Lynne Sachs makes films, installations, performances and web projects that explore the intricate relationship between...
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Popular As Lynne Sachs
Occupation Director
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born August 10, 1961 (Memphis, Tennessee, USA)
Birthday August 10
Town/City Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Nationality USA

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Lynne Sachs’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Lynne Sachs was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.

Lynne Sachs makes films, installations, performances 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.

Strongly committed to a dialogue between cinematic theory and practice, she searches for a rigorous play between image and sound, pushing the visual and aural textures in her work with each and every new project.

Between 1994 and 2009, her five essay films took her to Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel, Italy and Germany - sites affected by international war - where she looked at the space between a community's collective memory and her own subjective perceptions.

Recently, after 25 years of making experimental documentaries, Lynne learned something that turned all her ideas about filmmaking upside down. While working on Your Day is My Night in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City, she came to see that every time she asked a person to talk in front of her camera, they were performing for her rather than revealing something completely honest about their lives.

The very process of recording guaranteed that some aspect of the project would be artificial. She decided she had to think of a way to change that, so she invited her subjects to work with her to make the film, to become her collaborators.

For Lynne, this change in her process has moved her toward a new type of filmmaking, one that not only explores the experiences of her subjects, but also invites them to participate in the construction of a film about their lives.

Since 2006, Lynne has also collaborated with her partner Mark Street in a series of playful, mixed-media performance collaborations they call The XY Chromosome Project. In addition to her work with the moving image, Lynne co-edited the 2009 Millennium Film Journal issue on "Experiments in Documentary" and co-curated the 2014 film series "We Landed/ I Was Born/ Passing By: NYC's Chinatown on Film" at Anthology Film Archives.

Lynne has received support from the Rockefeller and Jerome Foundations and the New York State Council on the Arts and residencies in both film and poetry from the MacDowell Colony. Her films have screened at the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto's Images Festival and Los Angeles' Redcat Theatre.

,The Buenos Aires Film Festival(2007), the China Women's Film Festival (2014) and the Havana Film Festival (2016) have hosted retrospectives of her work. The San Francisco Cinematheque published a monograph with four original essays in conjunction with a full retrospective of Lynne's work.

In 2012, Lynne began a series of live film performances of Your Day is My Night in alternative theater spaces around New York City. She then completed the hour-long hybrid video which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in 2013 and screened at the Vancouver Film Fest, Union Docs, the New Orleans Film Fest and other venues in the US and abroad.

Lynne did her undergraduate work in history and studio art at Brown University and graduate work in film at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University. She teaches experimental film and video at Princeton University and lives in Brooklyn.

In 2014, Lynne received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Film and Video. Links to recent articles on Lynne Sachs: Los Angeles Times article on Women Directors: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-female-directors-fandors-fix-20150503-story.

htmlLaundromat-Theater: Where Every Fold Matters: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/02/theater/laundromat-theater-where-every-fold-mattersBrooklyn Rail interview with Lynne Sachs: http://www.brooklynrail.

org/2013/09/film/Lynne-Sachs-with-karen-resterYes, No and an Occasional Maybe: Two directions in the creative process: https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/yes-no-and-an-occasional-maybeVideo: Lynne Sachs' Seven Forms of Filmmaking: https://www.

fandor.com/keyframe/video-Lynne-Sachs-seven-forms-of-filmmakingRewind: The Worlds Lynne Sachs Calls Home: Sachs reflects on lives outside the comfort zone: https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/rewind-the-worlds-Lynne-Sachs-calls-home

Lynne Sachs Movies

  • Investigation of a Flame (2003) as Director
  • Which Way Is East (1994) as Director
  • The Washing Society (2017) as Director
  • Tip of My Tongue (2017) as Director

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