Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Contractions

Lynne SACHS 2024 USA color 13min DCP
✦ Each screening of Contractions is followed by a 4′33″ sound collage piece We Continue to Speak.

The film takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic. In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, they speak with the full force of their collective presence.

Director

Lynne SACHS

SACHS’s films embrace archives, diaries, letters, poetry and music to take us on a critical journey through reality and memory. Working from a feminist perspective, she investigates the connections between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself.

Lynne SACHS

2024 We Continue to Speak

2024 Contractions

2023 The Jitters

2023 She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes

2022 Swerve

2021 Figure and I

2021 E•pis•to•lar•y: letter to Jean Vigo

2021 Maya at 24

2020 Orange Glow

2020 Visit to Bernadette Mayer’s Childhood Home

2020 Girl is Presence

2020 Film About a Father Who

2019 A Month of Single Frames (for Barbara Hammer)

2018 The Washing Society

2018 Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor

2017 A Year of Notes and Numbers

2017 And Then We Marched

2017 Tip of My Tongue

2015 Starfish Aorta Colossus

2014 Drift and Bough

2013 Your Day is My Night

2012 Same Stream Twice

2011 Sound of a Shadow

2010 The Task of the Translator

2010 Wind in Our Hair

2009 The Last Happy Day

2009 Cuadro por Cuadro

2008 Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

2007 XY Chromosome Project

2006 States of UnBelonging

2006 The Small Ones

2006 Noa, Noa

2006 Atalanta 32 Years Later

2002 Tornado

2001 First Steps in a Terra Incognita

2001 Investigation of a Flame

2001 Photograph of Wind

2000 Window Work

1997 A Biography of Lilith

1994 Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

1991 The House of Science: a museum of false facts

1989 Sermons and Sacred Pictures

1987 Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

1986 Still Life with Woman and Four Objects

1986 Drawn and Quartered 

1986 Fossil

1983 Ladies Wear

Producer: Emily BERISSO, Laura GOODMAN, Lynne SACHS

Cinematographer: Sean HANLEY

Editor: Anthony SVATEK

Studio Recording: Doug EASLEY

Sound: Mix Kevin T. ALLEN

Voices: Dr. Kimberly LOONEY, Jane

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