Laurie Anderson Movies
- 1990
John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
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This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His...
- 2012
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...
- 2008
A Not So Silent Night
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Recorded in 2008, direct from the Knitting Factory stage in downtown Manhattan. This The McGarrigle Christmas Hour features Kate & Anna McGarrigle,...
- 2010
Homeland: The Story of the Lark
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A distilled, up-to-the-minute portrait of our agitated nation, its politics, its economics, its delusions and its dreams. Laurie Anderson's tone is...
- 1977
Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves
Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves01977HD
This performance consists of ten songs in which music, language and images are equally important. In most of these songs, Anderson plays the violin,...
- 1990
One World, One Voice
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An extraordinary music special is the climax to One World week. The brainchild of ex-10cc drummer Kevin Godley, it features the first true global...
- 2007
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...
- 1986
The World beyond the World
The World beyond the World01986HD
'Thinking machines' and 'people thinking as machines' (super-computerprogrammers who have internalized computerese) are perhaps two of a kind. But...
- 1991
Carmen
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Anderson’s Carmen, who works in a tobacco factory, is as strong-willed and carefree as the original (she steals cigarettes off the assembly...
- 1983
Set and Reset
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Premiere performance of Set and Reset at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 21 October 1983
- 1991
The Human Face
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A highly innovative arts documentary, which uses the latest special effects, to investigate the cultural and scientific background behind the way we...
- 1989
Talk Normal
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At the '87 Tokyo International Video Biennale, held at Spiral Hall, performance artist Laurie Anderson gave the unforgettable lecture-demonstration,...
- 1993
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros01993HD
The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie...
- 1981
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,...
- 1991
Sphinxes Without Secrets
Sphinxes Without Secrets01991HD
Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In...
- 1986
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July01986HD
Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More...