Laurie Anderson Movies

  • 1991
    Sphinxes Without Secrets

    Sphinxes Without Secrets

    Sphinxes Without Secrets

    01991HD

    Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In...

    Sphinxes Without Secrets
  • 1986
    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

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    Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More...

    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
  • 1981
    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

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    The multiple means of making art after the end of illusionism led these artists to create performances, sculptures, earthworks, tableaux, furniture,...

    14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
  • 1982
    Supermann

    Supermann

    Supermann

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    SUPERMAN is an early performance experimentation with video as mirror.

    Supermann
  • 2020
    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space

    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space

    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space

    02020HD

    An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who...

    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space
  • 1986
    What You Mean We?

    What You Mean We?

    What You Mean We?

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    WHAT YOU MEAN WE is a surreal short film by experimental artist Laurie Anderson.

    What You Mean We?
  • 2018
    Call Us Ishmael

    Call Us Ishmael

    Call Us Ishmael

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    Each and every year hundreds of people flock to New Bedford, MA in bleak mid-winter to partake in a celebration like none other. They read this...

    Call Us Ishmael
  • 1991
    The Human Face

    The Human Face

    The Human Face

    01991HD

    A highly innovative arts documentary, which uses the latest special effects, to investigate the cultural and scientific background behind the way we...

    The Human Face
  • 2012
    BAM150

    BAM150

    BAM150

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    A captivating history of the nation's oldest performing arts center - which largely mirrors the evolution of experimental and progressive performing...

    BAM150
  • 1977
    Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves

    Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves

    Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves

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    This performance consists of ten songs in which music, language and images are equally important. In most of these songs, Anderson plays the violin,...

    Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves
  • 1983
    Closed Circuit

    Closed Circuit

    Closed Circuit

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    IT specialist Victor Faber makes a living securing computers for large corporations and banks. His reclusive private life is upended when he falls in...

    Closed Circuit
  • 2018
    To the Moon

    To the Moon

    To the Moon

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    To the Moon uses images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, sci-fi space movies and politics to create an imaginary and dark new...

    To the Moon
  • 2017
    aloft

    aloft

    aloft

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    Aloft is an interactive VR work created through a collaboration between Huang Hsin-Chien and US artist Laurie Anderson from 2016 to 2017. Audiences...

    aloft
  • 2021
    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Forest

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Forest

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Forest

    02021HD

    Laurie Anderson presents Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds. The Forest is the second in a series of six lectures, looking at the...

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Forest
  • 1983
    No York City

    No York City

    No York City

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    Impressions of New York City. Experimental short.

    No York City
  • 2021
    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The River

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The River

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The River

    02021HD

    Laurie Anderson presents, Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds. The River is the first in a series of six lectures, looking at the...

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The River
  • 1989
    Talk Normal

    Talk Normal

    Talk Normal

    01989HD

    At the '87 Tokyo International Video Biennale, held at Spiral Hall, performance artist Laurie Anderson gave the unforgettable lecture-demonstration,...

    Talk Normal
  • 2007
    Why Birds Sing

    Why Birds Sing

    Why Birds Sing

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    Inspired by musician and eco-philosopher David Rothenberg's book of the same title, this documentary explores the intriguing, charming, complex and...

    Why Birds Sing
  • 2021
    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - Rocks

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - Rocks

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - Rocks

    02021HD

    Laurie Anderson presents Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds. Rocks is the third in a series of six lectures, looking at the challenges...

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - Rocks
  • 1983
    Set and Reset

    Set and Reset

    Set and Reset

    01983HD

    Premiere performance of Set and Reset at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 21 October 1983

    Set and Reset