Laurie Anderson Movies

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

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...

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

Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. [Made for and aired on PBS's...

John Peel's Record Box is a documentary film made by Elaine Shepherd, released on 14 November 2005 on Channel 4. It was nominated for Primetime Emmy...

Garland Jeffreys, the mixed-race Brooklyn native whose music defied industry norms, receives long-overdue recognition in this enlightening...

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

Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts his exploits and chance encounters while playing a minor role in the film...

'Thinking machines' and 'people thinking as machines' (super-computerprogrammers who have internalized computerese) are perhaps two of a kind. But...

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...

"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...

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...

Monologuist Spalding Gray talks about the great difficulties he experienced while attempting to write his first novel, a nearly 2,000-page...

The story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea of a public library happen. From the pioneering women behind the "Free Library...

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...

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

Impressions of New York City. Experimental short.

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

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

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