Movies

  • 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?
  • 1991
    Carmen

    Carmen

    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...

    Carmen
  • 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
  • 1989
    Talk Normal

    Talk Normal

    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,...

    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
  • 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
  • 1983
    No York City

    No York City

    No York City

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    Impressions of New York City. Experimental short.

    No York City
  • 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
  • 2020
    Symphony Of The Invisible

    Symphony Of The Invisible

    Symphony Of The Invisible

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    "Symphony of the Invisible" is a reflection on creation and how through art, poetry and images you can break the limits that have been imposed on...

    Symphony Of The Invisible
  • 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
  • 2019
    Museum Town

    Museum Town

    Museum Town

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    A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

    Museum Town
  • 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

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    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
  • 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
  • 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

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    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
  • 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

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

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Road

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Road

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

    Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Road
  • 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
  • 2017
    La Camera Insabbiata

    La Camera Insabbiata

    La Camera Insabbiata

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    La Camera Insabbiata is a virtual reality work by the legendary artist Laurie Anderson, and Taiwanese new media artist Hsin-chien Huang. The work...

    La Camera Insabbiata