Contractions
ABOUT
Intimate confessions, paired with experimental choreography outside a woman’s clinic in Memphis, offer a glimpse into the end of safe and legal abortion access in the US.
Lynne Sachs (Memphis, Tennessee, 1961) is a filmmaker and poet living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work explores the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together text, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. Strongly committed to a feminist dialogue between cinematic theory and practice, she searches for a rigorous play between image and sound, pushing the visual and aural textures in her work with every new project. Her moving image work ranges from short experimental films, to essay films to hybrid live performances. Lynne has made 40 films, including features and shorts, which have screened, won awards or been included in retrospectives at New York Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Sundance, Oberhausen, Viennale, Sheffield Doc/Fest, RIDM Montréal, Vancouver Film Festival, Doclisboa, Havana IFF, and China Women’s Film Festival. In 2014, she received the Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts.
CREDITS
Laura Goodman
Lynne Sachs
VOICES: Dr. Kimberly, Looney Jane
CAST / PERFORMERS: SaBrenna Boggan, Chase Colling, Shana J. Crispin, Kimberly Hooper-Taylor, Coe Lapossy, A. Lloyd, Audrey May, Vanessa Mejia, Natalie Richmond, Krista Scott, Neal Trotter, J. Wright, Nubia Yasin