Lynn Hershman-Leeson Trailers
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Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has received international acclaim for her art and films. She is recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression. She is considered one of the most influential media artists and has made pioneering contributions in photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art.
Her activist films on injustice within the art world and society at large have been praised worldwide. !Women Art Revolution! won first prize in the Montreal Festival for Films on Art and hailed by the Museum of Modern Art as one of the three best documentaries of 2012. Holland Cotter of the New York Times called it “the most comprehensive documentary ever made on the feminist art movement.” Her 2009 film Strange Culture – which the NY Time deemed “the perfect balance of form and content” and The Nation called “a brilliant and moving examination of fear and its manipulation” – resulted in the the release of an artist facing a prison sentence of 23 years.
Most Popular Lynn Hershman-Leeson Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
14 December 2019
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years.
09 February 2007
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE).
01 January 1992
Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who look for stability in an electronic world that lacks sufficient mediation.
12 September 2010
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
10 January 2002
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 breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine.
14 February 2017
In 2015 reknown Cuban artist Tania Bruguera was imprisoned in Havana after advocating for freedom of expression.
07 May 2021
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 reminds us that we are stronger together.
01 October 2023
Written and performed by a Cyborg – a GPT-3 Chatbot, considers how to transform human discrimination and technological weapons into tools of survival.
31 October 1993
A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate relationship with him through the computer screen than in person.
18 March 1976
Documentary about an art installtion.
01 January 1998
In this video series an individual confronts fears and, through the process of confessing directly to the camera, transcends trauma.
02 March 1978
This short film documents the transformation of Hershman Leeson into her performance persona, Roberta Breitmore.
02 March 1978
This short “portrait” of the artist was screened on public television.
28 March 2024
The final video in the four-part Cyborg series.
01 March 1979
In this “factional docudrama,” a “test pattern man” personifies television media. When an interviewer asks him about his memories of the Kennedy assassination (which is shown in reenactment), he references the vapid content on other channels that day.
19 February 1999
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves.
16 December 2017
VertiGhost, a newly commissioned work by Lynn Hershman Leeson for the Fine Arts Museums, draws the viewer into a meditation about notions of authenticity and the construction of identity.
01 January 1994
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 to intimacy and a condom for safe sex.
01 January 1989
Fact and fiction blur in this faux documentary about a lost woman, Lian, who is searching for her own identity.
07 July 1987
Binge turns on confession and self-image, using obesity as the main course. Losing her familiar shape to overeating, Lynn Hershman occupies electronic space to announce her despair and her subsequent—and partially successful—diet.
06 June 1986
In Lynn Hershman’s Confessions of a Chameleon the artist shares intimate but highly suspect stories about her past.
20 June 1990
Four "seduction ads" placed on cable TV stations invite unexpected responses. This short film is about fantasy and desire in a mediated world.
01 January 1992
"Not only about the cultural differences between America and Denmark, but also about the loss of identity as a result of the ubiquitous surveillance and data systems in the modern world.
11 November 2019
A woman's personal life unfolds over twelve years in a video diary that simultaneously parallels and reflects global history.
13 November 2019
Shadow Stalker outlines the history of Predictive Policing, Digital Identity Theft and the dangers of Data Mining, that uses algorithms, performance and projections to make visible private Internet systems that are increasingly used by law enforcement and promote racial profiling.
01 October 2022
Cyborg #1, a sentient being who adopts the guise of a human through actress Joan Chen, engages in an exercise of self-reflection on her role in history and tells a story: a life, her own, conditioned by the militarized, warmongering context that motivates technological innovation, from encrypted and decrypted underwater communications systems during World War II to the genesis of cyborgs during the Vietnam War.
01 January 2007
This project uses mixed reality convergence through which users can participate in some of the digital existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University.
31 December 1994
"A poetic allegory about technology's invasion of the body and the destruction of the immune system, witnessing the pollution of history that drowns us.
