Movies: Lee Lynch

A pair of Japanese siblings get stranded in small-town California and become friends with other twentysomethings they meet, despite the complete lack of a common verbal language....

A man, disillusioned with his life and bored by his surroundings, mysteriously finds himself in a barren desert. After making his way back to civilization, and encountering a handful of local personalities, the man decides to abandon his former life ...

After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other's flaws to get back together. They take what they hope will be a romantic camping trip in Sequoia National Park. Alone in the majestic landscape, they begin t...

The Murder of Hi Good is a true-crime revisionist western set in Northern California, 1870. It details the eventual murder of California’s most notorious Indian hunter; Hiram Good. Most historians believe that his indentured servant “Indian Ned” kill...

Moving from Redding to Los Angeles, Roger and Lee Anne hope to make a better life. When their baby is born with a rare heart defect, they are forced to give up those dreams and make decisions that will give them stability. A landscape out of balance ...

Fresh out of the Navy, Pete Church returns to his hometown on Thanksgiving to track down an alcoholic father he hasn’t seen in years. Unable to pick up the scent on his own, he calls his older brother Bob who has remained in town building a business ...

Set in an abandoned exurb in Iceland, the film is a semi-fictional portrait of local teenager "Gunnar" who is obsessed with serial killers. As the filmmakers follow him around the derelict modernist dwellings a narrative emerges of Iceland's financia...

"The Wash is a portrait of the river wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall, California, where Lee and I used to live. We shot the wash on Super8 film and then finished it on video. It is a collaboration between us, describing the ways the w...

For five years, Schmitt and Lynch followed the buffalo hunt in the American West. Their fascinating portrait of a disappearing world contrasts unspoiled landscapes with commercial influences on the American myth....

A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve. It’s part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante and filmmakers, Naomi Uman and Lee Lynch)....

In 1885 two boys in Southern California discover a cave of Chumash Indian artefacts in the San Martin Mountains on land that is now part of the Chiquita Canyon landfill, located in the small town of Castaic. The cave is known as Bowers Cave, named af...

A folk-film directed by Lee Lynch and Christian Cummings about the mythological origins of Jack 'O' Lantern, from which the popular holiday trope derives....

A short 16mm movie based on my childhood memories of attending a reading of Everybody Needs a Rock, by Byrd Baylor. It was the question and answer session that really changed me....

Ovid's Pomona is film based on a Greek-myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses....

A modern fairy tale about the supposed "last Leprechaun". Directed by Lee Lynch and starring James Gibbons. Filmed in 1999 on Super 8mm....

THE BEE HIVE (2000) is a Super 8mm (sound) haiku-film about the discovery of nature. Made as an experimental scholastic film to better convey the aesthetics and wonderment of nature that the institutional science films of the filmmaker's childhood ut...