Lynne Sachs Movies

  • 2006
    Atalanta: 32 Years Later

    Atalanta: 32 Years Later

    Atalanta: 32 Years Later

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    A retelling of the age-old fairy tale of the beautiful princess in search of the perfect prince. In 1974, Marlo Thomas’ hip, liberal celebrity...

    Atalanta: 32 Years Later
  • 2011
    Sound of a Shadow

    Sound of a Shadow

    Sound of a Shadow

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    A wabi sabi summer in Japan: Observing that which is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete produces a series of visual haiku in teeming street life;...

    Sound of a Shadow
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 2009
    Cuadro por cuadro

    Cuadro por cuadro

    Cuadro por cuadro

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    A documentary of a workshop taught by the filmmaker at the Foundacion D'Arte Contemporaneo, an artist's collective in Montevideo, Uruguay. Workshop...

    Cuadro por cuadro
  • 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