Lynne Sachs

Interview conducted by Erin Zona on June 17, 2023 in Brooklyn, NY

Lynne Sachs is an experimental filmmaker, poet, performer, and educator in Brooklyn, New York. Sachs’s work confronts social and political issues through a compassionate, feminist lens. The images she captures in films such as Tip of My Tongue (2017) and Film About a Father Who (2020) reflect the beautiful, mundane, and spectacular aspects of the human experience. Sachs published her first book, Year by Year Poems, with Tender Buttons Press in 2019. In 2021, she was awarded for her lifetime achievements in experimental and documentary film by Edison Film Festival and Prismatic Ground Film Festival at the Maysles Documentary Center. Sachs has paid homage to Schneemann in her experimental lectures at New York University and, most notably, in her film Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor (2018).

In this excerpt, Sachs describes discovering film as a medium, and the importance to her of seeing Scheemann’s Fuses (1964-67).