Lynne Sachs is an American experimental artist and poet living in Brooklyn, New York. Her moving image work ranges from documentaries to essay films and from experimental shorts to hybrid live performances. Working from a feminist perspective, Sachs adds personal subjectivity to her social criticism. In Same Stream Twice, she films her daughter twice, at the age of six and at 16, the one in which she walks around her mother, the filmmaker. In the second take, at 16, the girl makes eye contact in a different way, and is more self-conscious.

“My daughter’s name is Maya. I’ve been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. In 2001, I photographed her at six years old, spinning like a top around me. Even then, I realised that her childhood was not something I could grasp but rather – like the wind – something I could feel tenderly brushing across my cheek,” Sachs says about her work.