Film Format: 16mm

  • Same Stream Twice

    My daughter’s name is Maya. I’ve been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. In 2001, I photographed her at six years old, spinning like a top around me. Even then, I realized that her childhood was not something I could grasp but rather – like the wind – something I could feel tenderly brushing across my cheek.  Eleven years later, I pull out my 16mm Bolex camera once again and she allows me to film her – different but somehow the same. Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film Festival, 2013.

  • Viva and Felix Growing Up

    For the first three years of my twin niece’s and nephew’s lives, I used my 16mm Bolex camera to film them growing up in New York City with their two dads (my brother Ira Sachs and his husband Boris Torres) and their mom (Kirsten Johnson). The film ends with a Gay Pride Day embrace.

  • Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Three renowned women artists discuss their passion for filmmaking. 
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives. From Carolee’s 18th Century house in the woods of Upstate New York to Barbara’s West Village studio to Gunvor’s childhood village in Sweden, Lynne shoots film with each woman in the place where she finds grounding and spark. Awards: “Best of Festival” Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago; Honorable Mention Jury Award, Festival de Curtas Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Honorable Mention, Woodstock Film Festival. Screenings: Premiere…

  • Six Variations on the Same Theme

    The experimental film traditions of reprocessing and hand-processing, rephotography, and optical printing are all achieved through overtly digital means; the chemical and alchemical is made artificial through apparent pixels, computer-cobbled graphics, and the incorporation of analog video signals. Even the act of joining two filmic images is accomplished through digital means, creating a methodology of uncanniness.

  • Gap-Toothed Women

    “Gap-Toothed Women” features Lauren Hutton, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Chaucer’s wife of Bath, and many other women who have a space between their two front teeth. The film explores the self-image of women and the pressures they feel to conform to the ideals of mass media. It also reveals many unique and fascinating individuals who happen to be both women and gap-toothed. Film critic Roger Ebert considers this to be one of Les Blank’s best films. “In thirty minutes of interviews, art work, folklore and song, Blank tranforms the issues of gapped teeth into an exploration of how…

  • Unarchive

    Unarchive juxtaposes the filmmaker’s father’s life with the political history of Chile – his birthplace – over the past century. It reflects on how we remember and how we forget, and the role of the camera in transcending the complex space in between.

  • Garden of Earthly Delights, The

    This film (related to “Mothlight”) is a collage composed entirely of montane zone vegetation. As the title suggests it is an homage to (but also argument with) Hieronymus Bosch. It pays tribute as well, and more naturally, to “The Tangled Garden” of J.E.H. MacDonald and the flower paintings of Emil Nolde.

  • The Initiation Well

    The Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal is a huge estate that has two wells for performing initiation ceremonies built into the ground. This film takes us into one of them. Sound design by Samuel La France.

  • The North Sea

    “As Benjamin had predicted, nothing brings the promise of happiness encoded at the birth of a technological form to light as effectively as the fall into obsolescence of its final stages of development.” – Rosalind Krauss Supported by the City of the Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

  • VIA KARELIA

    Tracing back a lost identity, hidden in the forests of an abandoned war zone. How does a trauma get carried on from a generation to another and is there a way to stop the cycle? The filmmaker tries to understand how to heal from the pressures of the past by searching for their grandmother’s childhood home. Taking the journey with their parents, they find themselves in a village located in the old Karelia, now a part of Russia.