Laurie Anderson Movies

  • 1977
    Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves

    Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves

    Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves

    01977HD

    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
  • 2008
    A Not So Silent Night

    A Not So Silent Night

    A Not So Silent Night

    02008HD

    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
  • 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

    01993HD

    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
  • 1991
    The Human Face

    The Human Face

    The Human Face

    01991HD

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

    The Human Face
  • 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

    02021HD

    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
  • 2018
    To the Moon

    To the Moon

    To the Moon

    02018HD

    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
  • 2018
    Call Us Ishmael

    Call Us Ishmael

    Call Us Ishmael

    02018HD

    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
  • 1983
    Set and Reset

    Set and Reset

    Set and Reset

    01983HD

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

    Set and Reset
  • 1986
    The World beyond the World

    The World beyond the World

    The World beyond the World

    01986HD

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

    The World beyond the World
  • 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

    02021HD

    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
  • 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

    02021HD

    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
  • 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

    02021HD

    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
  • 2017
    aloft

    aloft

    aloft

    02017HD

    Aloft is an interactive VR work created through a collaboration between Huang Hsin-Chien and US artist Laurie Anderson from 2016 to 2017. Audiences...

    aloft
  • 1991
    Carmen

    Carmen

    Carmen

    01991HD

    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