Lee Lynch Movies

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

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...

A man, disillusioned with his life and bored by his surroundings, mysteriously finds himself in a barren desert. After making his way back to...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve. It’s part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made...

For five years, Schmitt and Lynch followed the buffalo hunt in the American West. Their fascinating portrait of a disappearing world contrasts...

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...

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

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...

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...