Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

Birthday: 1947-06-05

Place of Birth: Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA

Biography: Laura Phillips Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

Movies

Brainwave
Brainwave

Documentary, Science and Nature Documentaries, Miscellaneous Documentaries - Launched in 2008, Brain...

View Movie
A Not So Silent Night
A Not So Silent Night

Recorded in 2008, direct from the Knitting Factory stage in downtown Manhattan. This The McGarrigle ...

View Movie
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as ...

View Movie
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, perf...

View Movie
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson

A concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, filmed at the Park Theater in...

View Movie
Thank You Very Much
Thank You Very Much

Andy Kaufman's provocative comedy often outraged audiences, challenging them to confront their own p...

View Movie
One World, One Voice
One World, One Voice

An extraordinary music special is the climax to One World week. The brainchild of ex-10cc drummer Ke...

View Movie
BAM150
BAM150

A captivating history of the nation's oldest performing arts center - which largely mirrors the evol...

View Movie
Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves
Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves

This performance consists of ten songs in which music, language and images are equally important. In...

View Movie
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her ...

View Movie
Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between
Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between

Garland Jeffreys, the mixed-race Brooklyn native whose music defied industry norms, receives long-ov...

View Movie
All Star Video
All Star Video

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

View Movie
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the ha...

View Movie
Why Birds Sing
Why Birds Sing

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

View Movie
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Sch...

View Movie
Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel - So
Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel - So

This addition to the acclaimed & award winning Classic Albums series tells the story behind the maki...

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

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a gr...

View Movie
The Rugrats Movie
The Rugrats Movie

Based on the popular Nickelodeon TV series Rugrats, this is the first full-length feature animated m...

View Movie
McLuhan's Wake
McLuhan's Wake

A fascinating clash of philosophy, classical studies and Pop Culture, this film capsulizes a number ...

View Movie
Sphinxes Without Secrets
Sphinxes Without Secrets

Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the do...

View Movie
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of t...

View Movie
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

The multiple means of making art after the end of illusionism led these artists to create performanc...

View Movie
System Without Shadow
System Without Shadow

Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is...

View Movie
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos

Featuring The Videos : Beautiful Red Dress / Language Is A Virus / Sharkey's Day / O Superman - Incl...

View Movie
Homeland: The Story of the Lark
Homeland: The Story of the Lark

A distilled, up-to-the-minute portrait of our agitated nation, its politics, its economics, its delu...

View Movie
Heavy Petting
Heavy Petting

Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comed...

View Movie
Music
Music

The story of music and the music industry told through interviews with musicians, composers and prod...

View Movie
Call Us Ishmael
Call Us Ishmael

Each and every year hundreds of people flock to New Bedford, MA in bleak mid-winter to partake in a ...

View Movie
What You Mean We?
What You Mean We?

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

View Movie
Talk Normal
Talk Normal

At the '87 Tokyo International Video Biennale, held at Spiral Hall, performance artist Laurie Anders...

View Movie
The Human Face
The Human Face

A highly innovative arts documentary, which uses the latest special effects, to investigate the cult...

View Movie
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...

View Movie
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 portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their ...

View Movie
The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space
The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space

An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voic...

View Movie
Symphony Of The Invisible
Symphony Of The Invisible

"Symphony of the Invisible" is a reflection on creation and how through art, poetry and images you c...

View Movie
John Peel's Record Box
John Peel's Record Box

John Peel's Record Box is a documentary film made by Elaine Shepherd, released on 14 November 2005 o...

View Movie
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influen...

View Movie
Sisters with Transistors
Sisters with Transistors

Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. Wh...

View Movie
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'

Featuring inverviews from: Afrika Bambaataa, Ashford & Simpson, Jackson Browne, Kim Burell, Taylor D...

View Movie
Buke & Gase
Buke & Gase

In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when tours were canceled and all live music went si...

View Movie
Free for All: The Public Library
Free for All: The Public Library

The story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea of a public library happen. From the p...

View Movie
Why I Love The Stars
Why I Love The Stars

...

View Movie
Laurie Anderson Saint Joan of Arc Basilica, Paris
Laurie Anderson Saint Joan of Arc Basilica, Paris

In the inspiring setting of a deconsecrated Parisian church, iconic experimental artist Laurie Ander...

View Movie
Eno
Eno

A generative documentary about artist Brian Eno, with 52 quintillion possible iterations, so that no...

View Movie