10 Films:

“XY Chromosome Project” 12 min. 2007
“The Small Ones”, 3 min. video 2006
“Noa, Noa”, 8 min. 16mm, 2006
“Atalanta 32 Years Later” 5 min. video, 2006
“Tornado”, 4 min. video 2002
“Photograph of Wind” 4 min. 16mm, silent, 2001
“Window Work” 9 min. video, 2000
“Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning”, 9 min. 16mm. 1987..
“Still Life With Woman and Four Objects”, 4 min. B&W 16mm., 1986
“Drawn and Quartered”, 4 min. color 16mm., 1987

“Lynne Sachs is best known for her spirited and lyrical essay films---films defined by an unwavering woman's inflection and a commitment to pry the cracks in official history. However, throughout Sachs's career, we've been treated to a succession of short experimental works that tease out the details of the everyday with the same clarity of vision and instinct for the hand-nurtured image as her much-lauded lengthier works. These films and videotapes, whether they be mystified glimpses of childhood, reinventions of films past, or formal excursions into the poetic, surrender the wonder of a world seen by an artist with a soulful eye and a conscientious heart.”
--Steve Seid, Film-Video Curator, Pacific Film Archive

“Equal parts humanist and formalist, poet and historian, telling tales that are both timeless and political, Lynne Sachs creates film worlds in which the textures of daily domestic life are seamlessly connected to the realms of war, political activism, and our response to terrorist attacks. In one film, a grid becomes a secret map for understanding the difference between male and female. In another, an affectionate portrait of her young daughter becomes a study of whirling circular energy. For each of these ten shorts, Sachs creates a unique film language, by weaving together images, sounds, and words that evoke a particular way of viewing the world. All of these works reveal a sensibility that refuses to flatten either life or art, insisting on a multilevel reality in which the personal and the universal become doorways to a broader consciousness.”
--David Finkelstein, writer for filmthreat.com

“Sachs suspends in time a single moment of her daughter.”
-- Fred Camper, Chicago Reader

“Very gentle and evocative of foreign feelings.”
--George Kuchar, filmmaker

“Profound, the soundtrack amazing….the image of the girl with the avocado seed so hopeful.”
--Barbara Hammer, filmmkaer

“In Sachs’s theatrical, microcosmic worlds, the everyday is defamiliarized. Objects — toys, hands, a cherry pie, a miniature Empire State Building — resonate and tremble.” Bosko Blagojevic, Flavorpill.net

Catalog Number: MC-724	Type: Shorts Compilation	Genre: Experimental
Copyright: 2007	Length: 62 minutes	Format:  DVD  Region: 0 (All)
TV System: NTSC	ISBN:	UPC: 880198072498
Label: Lynne Sachs Films

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Films In Compilation

2008-02-22  Salon.com By Andrew O’Hehir Best known for her essayistic documentaries "Investigation of a Flame" and "Which Way Is East," Lynne Sachs has an alternate career as a creator of experimental shorts likelier to be seen in art museums than movie theaters. Ranging from 1986 to 2006, and from 3 to 12 minutes in length, the examples in "10 Short Films" are lyrical and challenging, personal but never dogmatic, often totally mysterious and just as often surpassingly beautiful.

2008-02-13  Curled up with a good DVD By Eric Renshaw It is difficult to review a collection of short films; it seems that each film in Lynne Sachs: 10 Short Films and Videos, Vol. 3 should be judged on its own merit. Each is interesting in its own way, and nearly every frame could be isolated and used as an effective still photograph. In "Drawn and Quartered," Lynne and her friend John filmed themselves on a roof in 1987 - mostly naked, mostly isolated in their own frames, cells of film. Lynne mostly occupies the two cells on the right, John the two on the left. Pretty unremarkable activities, but the observation at such close range holds the viewer's eye. It's not only the voyeuristic element that so draws the watcher, but that each of the four cells demands observation. "Tornado" was filmed on 12 September, 2001. Lynne sorted through debris that had wafted into a New York park from the fallen World Trade Center towers since the previous day. Some narration and text on the screen contrast the events of September 11th with the modus operandi of a tornado. The use of video in this one seems to inject a now-ness to the work. While most of us are now wired to pay special attention to any work about 9-11 and revere it, Lynne's film is remarkably well-done. Understated. It ends observing some people enjoying a day in the park. Life is fragile. "Atalanta Thirty-Two Years Later" is a retelling twice-removed of the Greek myth of Atalanta, a re-tooling of the version used in Marlo Thomas' "Free to Be...You and Me." Lynne turns that version on its side in a very literal way: the 1974 cartoon is shown rotated sideways in a split-screen and most of the audio run backward. The story is told of Atalanta, who must choose a mate from the many men who toil over canapes and fine food for a feast in her honor. In the end, Atalanta finds her love outside of the traditional pool of suitors, arriving on a different ending than either of the previous works. I think Marlo Thomas would approve. A beautiful collection of art here. Not every film grabbed me in the same way, but each of them had me gently by the hand.

2007-12-19  filmthreat.com By David Finkelstein Equal parts humanist and formalist, poet and historian, telling tales that are both timeless and political, Lynne Sachs creates film worlds in which the textures of daily domestic life are seamlessly connected to the realms of war, political activism, and our response to terrorist attacks. In one film, a grid becomes a secret map for understanding the difference between male and female. In another, an affectionate portrait of her young daughter becomes a study of whirling circular energy. For each of these ten shorts, Sachs creates a unique film language, by weaving together images, sounds, and words that evoke a particular way of viewing the world. All of these works reveal a sensibility that refuses to flatten either life or art, insisting on a multilevel reality in which the personal and the universal become doorways to a broader consciousness.

2007-12-19  Film-Video Curator, Pacific Film Archive By Steve Seid Lynne Sachs is best known for her spirited and lyrical essay films---films defined by an unwavering woman's inflection and a commitment to pry the cracks in official history. However, throughout Sachs's career, we've been treated to a succession of short experimental works that tease out the details of the everyday with the same clarity of vision and instinct for the hand-nurtured image as her much-lauded lengthier works. These films and videotapes, whether they be mystified glimpses of childhood, reinventions of films past, or formal excursions into the poetic, surrender the wonder of a world seen by an artist with a soulful eye and a conscientious heart.

0000-00-00  Chicago Reader By Fred Camper Sachs suspends in time a single moment of her daughter.

2007-06-20   By George Kuchar Very gentle and evocative of foreign feelings.

2007-06-20   By Barbara Hammer Profound, the soundtrack amazing….the image of the girl with the avocado seed so hopeful.

2007-06-20  Flavorpill.net By Bosko Blagojevic In Sachs’s theatrical, microcosmic worlds, the everyday is defamiliarized. Objects — toys, hands, a cherry pie, a miniature Empire State Building — resonate and tremble.

	Investigation of a Flame by Lynne Sachs MC-564, 2001 On May 17, 1968, three priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME is an intimate... more >	$US 24.98 home     Wholesale pricing available Available now! Format: DVD,NTSC
	Lynne Sachs: A Collection of Films Exploring Women, Culture, Science & Myth MC-356, 2005 This DVD collection presents two of Lynne Sachs' earlier films with several more recent media works -- all of which explore themes of women, culture, science & myth. The creative as well as intellectual inner workings of these projects are... more >	$US 19.95 home   $US 40.00 educ   what's this Wholesale pricing available Available now! Format: DVD,NTSC
	Which Way is East - Notebooks from Vietnam MC-465, 1994 When two American sisters travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history. Lynne and Dana Sachs' travel diary of their trip to Vietnam is a collection... more >	$US 19.95 home   $US 40.00 educ   what's this Wholesale pricing available Available now! Format: DVD,NTSC

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