Investigation of a Flame: A Portrait of the Catonsville Nine by Lynne Sachs
45 min. color and B&W, 2001
plus 5 min. Sundance Channel documentary on Daniel Berrigan and the making of the film
On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters led by Daniel and Philip Berrigan, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds [...]
Window Work
by Lynne Sachs
9 minute, color, sound video 2000
Music by Tom Goldstein
Sound Recording by Mark Street
A woman drinks tea, washes a window, reads the paper– simple tasks that somehow suggest a kind of quiet mystery within and beyond the image. Sometimes one hears the rhythmic, pulsing symphony of [...]
“A Biography of Lilith”
16mm Color Sound 1997 35min.
DVD: Lynne Sachs: A Collection of Films Exploring Women, Culture, Science and Myth
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 and for some, the first feminist. Lilith’s betrayal by [...]
“Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam”
by Lynne Sachs in Collaboration with Dana Sachs
33 min., color, sound, 1994
“A frog that sits at the bottom of a well thinks that the
whole sky is only as big as the lid of a pot.”
When two American sisters travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with [...]
“The House of Science: a museum of false facts”
30 min., color, sound, 1991
Still from The House of Science by Lynne Sachs
DVD: Lynne Sachs: A Collection of Films Exploring Women, Culture, Science and Myth
“Offering a new feminized film form, this piece explores both art and science’s representation of women, combining home movies, personal remembrances, staged scenes [...]
An experimental documentary on Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Black Baptist minister from Memphis, Tennessee who was also an inspired filmmaker with an overwhelming interest in preserving the social and cultural fabric of his own community in the 1930′ s and ‘ 40’ s . I combine his films and music recordings with my own images of Memphis neighborhoods and religious gatherings, 1989 .
“Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning”, 9 min. color 16mm. 1987.
Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a woman. A study in visual obsession and a twist on the notion of the “gaze”.
DVD: Lynne Sachs: 10 Short Films and [...]
“Drawn and Quartered”, 4 min. color 16mm. by Lynne Sachs
Optically printed images of a man and a woman fragmented by a film frame that is divided into four distinct sections. An experiment in form/content relationships that are peculiar to the medium, 1987
DVD: Lynne Sachs: 10 Short Films and Videos, Vol. 3
“Images of a male [...]
“Still Life With Woman and Four Objects”
4 min. B&W 16mm.1986
A film portrait that falls somewhere between a painting and a prose poem, a look at a woman’s daily routines and thoughts via an exploration of her as a “character”. By interweaving threads of history and fiction, the film is also a tribute to a real [...]
