Lynne Sachs

Lynne Sachs is a Memphis-born, Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Her work explores the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together text, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. From June 7 to 11, 2024, her latest film, Contractions, will be part of the Bodies and Bond program in DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema retrospective Lynne Sachs: From the Inside Out in New York City. Sachs has made 49 films, both features and shorts (including Film About a Father Who, Tip of My Tongue, Your Day is My Night, Investigation of a Flame, and Which Way is East) which have screened at New York Film Festival, Sundance, Oberhausen, Viennale, BAMCinemaFest, Vancouver Film Festival, DocLisboa and many others nationally and internationally. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Arts. In 2019, Tender Buttons Press published Lynne’s first collection of poetry, Year by Year Poems. (Photo by Abby Lord.)

Talks

“Struck Faceless and Yet, We Continue to Speak”

By Lynne Sachs | June 5, 2024

“Struck Faceless and Yet, We Continue to Speak”

Lynne Sachs, the subject of a current retrospective at DCTV, on the powerful experience of making her new abortion documentary, Contractions.

In Celebration of the Darkness: What Can Happen When the Lights Are Out

By Lynne Sachs | January 22, 2020

In Celebration of the Darkness: What Can Happen When the Lights Are Out

Documentary director Lynne Sachs sheds light on the innovative approach she took while making her new film, Film About a Father Who.