Lynn Hershman-Leeson Movies
- 2019
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
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Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over...
- 2002
Teknolust
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Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to...
- 2010
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
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Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing...
- 2007
Strange Culture
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The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members...
- 1999
Conceiving Ada
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Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the...
- 2017
Tania Libre
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In 2015 reknown Cuban artist Tania Bruguera was imprisoned in Havana after advocating for freedom of expression. Shortly after her release she...
- 2021
Tell Them We Were Here
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Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and...
- 1976
Bonwit Windows
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Documentary about an art installtion.
- 2023
Immortality
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Written and performed by a Cyborg – a GPT-3 Chatbot, considers how to transform human discrimination and technological weapons into tools of...
- 1989
Longshot
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Fact and fiction blur in this faux documentary about a lost woman, Lian, who is searching for her own identity. Lian is manipulated by Dennis, a...
- 1994
Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone
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This docudrama presents the history of the telephone, updated and told from the point of view of a character who uses the screen as both a connection...
- 2007
Life Squared
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This project uses mixed reality convergence through which users can participate in some of the digital existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now...
- 1987
Binge
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Binge turns on confession and self-image, using obesity as the main course. Losing her familiar shape to overeating, Lynn Hershman occupies...
- 2019
Shadow Stalker
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Shadow Stalker outlines the history of Predictive Policing, Digital Identity Theft and the dangers of Data Mining, that uses algorithms, performance...
- 1992
Seeing Is Believing
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Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who look for stability in an electronic...
- 1990
Desire Inc.
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Four "seduction ads" placed on cable TV stations invite unexpected responses. This short film is about fantasy and desire in a mediated world.
- 1978
Lynn Turning into Roberta
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This short film documents the transformation of Hershman Leeson into her performance persona, Roberta Breitmore.
- 1992
Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story
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"Not only about the cultural differences between America and Denmark, but also about the loss of identity as a result of the ubiquitous surveillance...
- 2022
Logic Paralyzes the Heart
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Presents the story of the first cyborg, portrayed by actress Joan Chen. Now 61 years old, the actress details the history of cyborgian technology,...
- 2019
The Electronic Diaries
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A woman's personal life unfolds over twelve years in a video diary that simultaneously parallels and reflects global history. Personal fears and...