Lynn Hershman-Leeson Movies

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...

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over...

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...

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...

In 2015 reknown Cuban artist Tania Bruguera was imprisoned in Havana after advocating for freedom of expression. Shortly after her release she...

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the...

A woman's personal life unfolds over twelve years in a video diary that simultaneously parallels and reflects global history. Personal fears and...

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing...

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...

The final video in the four-part Cyborg series.

This project uses mixed reality convergence through which users can participate in some of the digital existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now...

Four "seduction ads" placed on cable TV stations invite unexpected responses. This short film is about fantasy and desire in a mediated world.

Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who look for stability in an electronic...

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...

Documentary about an art installtion.

Written and performed by a Cyborg – a GPT-3 Chatbot, considers how to transform human discrimination and technological weapons into tools of...

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...

This short film documents the transformation of Hershman Leeson into her performance persona, Roberta Breitmore.

Shadow Stalker outlines the history of Predictive Policing, Digital Identity Theft and the dangers of Data Mining, that uses algorithms, performance...

"Not only about the cultural differences between America and Denmark, but also about the loss of identity as a result of the ubiquitous surveillance...