Laurie Anderson Movies

Anderson’s Carmen, who works in a tobacco factory, is as strong-willed and carefree as the original (she steals cigarettes off the assembly...

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

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

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

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

Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie...

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

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

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...

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...

A walk cycle, that becomes more and more desperate: A woman tries to keep up to speed, but life throws her off balance.

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

Impressions of New York City. Experimental short.

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

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

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

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

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

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