Contractions

Synopsis

Intimate confessions, paired with experimental choreography, outside a women’s clinic in Memphis offer a glimpse into the end of safe and legal abortion access in the United States.

Biography and Films

Lynne Sachs is an experimental filmmaker and poet living in Brooklyn, New York. Her films embrace archives, diaries, letters, poetry and music to take us on a critical journey through reality and memory. Working from a feminist perspective, Lynne investigates the connections between the body, camera and materiality of film itself. Retrospectives of her fifty short and feature films have been presented in Argentina, China, Ecuador, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States.