Laurie Anderson Movies

  • 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 Oliveros

    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

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    The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie...

    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
  • 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
  • 2002
    McLuhan's Wake

    McLuhan's Wake

    McLuhan's Wake

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    A fascinating clash of philosophy, classical studies and Pop Culture, this film capsulizes a number of "Media Prophet" Marshall McLuhan's conclusions...

    McLuhan's Wake
  • 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

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    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
  • 1985
    All Star Video

    All Star Video

    All Star Video

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    A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

    All Star Video
  • 1990
    John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It

    John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It

    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...

    John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
  • 1984
    Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

    Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

    Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

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    In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the...

    Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
  • 1983
    System Without Shadow

    System Without Shadow

    System Without Shadow

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    Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women,...

    System Without Shadow
  • 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
  • 2008
    A Not So Silent Night

    A Not So Silent Night

    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,...

    A Not So Silent Night
  • 2011
    Brainwave

    Brainwave

    Brainwave

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    Documentary, Science and Nature Documentaries, Miscellaneous Documentaries - Launched in 2008, Brainwave pairs celebrities from many walks of life;...

    Brainwave
  • 2010
    Homeland: The Story of the Lark

    Homeland: The Story of the Lark

    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...

    Homeland: The Story of the Lark
  • 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
  • 2016
    Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera

    Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera

    Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera

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    Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016

    Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera
  • 1983
    No York City

    No York City

    No York City

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    Impressions of New York City. Experimental short.

    No York City
  • 1990
    One World, One Voice

    One World, One Voice

    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...

    One World, One Voice
  • 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?
  • 2023
    Buke & Gase

    Buke & Gase

    Buke & Gase

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    In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when tours were canceled and all live music went silent, one band refused to stay quiet. The musical...

    Buke & Gase
  • 1991
    Sphinxes Without Secrets

    Sphinxes Without Secrets

    Sphinxes Without Secrets

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    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
  • 1983
    Set and Reset

    Set and Reset

    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

    Set and Reset