Lynne Sachs Movies

  • 2010
    Wind in Our Hair

    Wind in Our Hair

    Wind in Our Hair

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    Inspired by the short stories of Julio Cortázar, Lynne Sachs creates an experimental narrative about a group of girls on the verge of...

    Wind in Our Hair
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    Day Residue

    Day Residue

    Day Residue

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    I spent a day with my mother and stepfather shooting Super 8mm film in my childhood home in Memphis, Tennessee. Sigmund Freud believed that the...

    Day Residue
  • 1988
    The Randy Band Film

    The Randy Band Film

    The Randy Band Film

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    In the mid 1980s, I heard Memphis's very own RANDY BAND and decided I would collaborate with their bass player Randy Chertow on a movie. Tommy Hull...

    The Randy Band Film
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1997
    A Biography of Lilith

    A Biography of Lilith

    A Biography of Lilith

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    In a lively mix of off-beat narrative, collage and memoir, A Biography of Lilith updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman...

    A Biography of Lilith
  • 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