The Last Happy Day
Film About a Father Who • 38m
Directed by Lynne Sachs • 2009 • United States
THE LAST HAPPY DAY is an experimental documentary portrait of filmmaker Lynne Sachs’s distant cousin Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and writer of Jewish descent. In 1938, Lenard fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bones—small and large—of dead American soldiers. Eventually he found himself in Brazil, where he embarked on the translation of “Winnie the Pooh” into Latin, an eccentric task that catapulted him to brief worldwide fame. Sachs’s essay film uses personal letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, interviews, and a children’s performance to create an intimate meditation on the destructive power of war.
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Wind in Our Hair
Directed by Lynne Sachs • 2010 • United States
Inspired by the stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar yet blended with the realities of contemporary Argentina, Lynne Sachs’s experimental narrative follows four girls discovering themselves through a fascination with the trains that pass by th...
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The Washing Society
Directed by Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs • 2018 • United States
When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who’s doing the washing and folding? THE WASHING SOCIETY brings us into New York City laundromats and the experiences of the people who work there. Filmmaker Lynne Sachs and playwright Liz...
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Girl Is Presence
Directed by Lynne Sachs and Anne Lesley Selcer • 2020 • United States
For GIRL IS PRESENCE, Lynne Sachs has made images as a form of reading and listening in response to disquieting words from Anne Lesley Selcer’s poem “Sun Cycle.” A girl arranges and rearranges objects, sensorily reflecting th...
