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Lynne Sachs (born August 10, 1961 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American experimental filmmaker who makes films, videos, installations and web projects exploring the relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. She is known for weaving together poetry, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. After graduating from Brown University and majoring in history, she developed an interest in experimental documentary filmmaking while attending the 1985 (Robert Flaherty Documentary Film Seminar ) through a scholarship. There, she was particularly inspired by the works of Bruce Conner, who would later become her mentor, and Maya Deren. That same year, Sachs moved to San Francisco to attend San Francisco State University and later the San Francisco Art Institute. It was during this time that she studied and collaborated with Trinh T. Minh-ha, George Kuchar and Gunvor Nelson. ==Biography== In 1989, she returned to Memphis, her hometown, to shoot ''Sermons and Sacred Pictures'', her first long format experimental documentary. The film is a portrait of (Reverend L. O. Taylor ), an African-American minister and filmmaker from the 1930s and 40s. This film screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Margaret Mead Film Festival that year. Over the last two decades she has worked in sites affected by international war, such as Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel and Germany. Her films and web projects expose what she defines as the (“limits of a conventional documentary representation of both the past and the present” ). It is in this style that she has produced five pieces ((''Which Way Is East'' ), (''The House of Drafts'' ), ''Investigation of a Flame'', (''States of Unbelonging'' ) and ''The Last Happy Day'') grouped together as the I AM NOT A WAR PHOTOGRAPHER series. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, as well as residencies at the Experimental Television Center and the MacDowell Colony. Sachs’ films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Pacific Film Archive, the Sundance Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. In 2007, the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema presented a retrospective of her work. That same year, she collaborated with Chris Marker on a remake of his short film ''Three Cheers for the Whale''. She returned to Argentina in 2008 to film her first narrative project, ''Wind in Our Hair'', inspired by the short stories of Julio Cortázar. Additionally, she co-edited with film historian Lucas Hildebrand the Summer 2009 (Millennium Film Journal ) issue #51 on “Experiments in Documentary”. She currently teaches experimental film and video at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York with filmmaker (Mark Street ) and their two daughters. She is the sister of filmmaker Ira Sachs and author (Dana Sachs ). She has been an active member of the board of The Film-Makers' Cooperative since 1996. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lynne Sachs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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