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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

"A poetic allegory about technology's invasion of the body and the destruction of the immune system, witnessing the pollution of history that drowns...

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

Documentary about an art installtion.

In this video series an individual confronts fears and, through the process of confessing directly to the camera, transcends trauma. It is also about...

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...

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...

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

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

Presents the story of the first cyborg, portrayed by actress Joan Chen. Now 61 years old, the actress details the history of cyborgian technology,...

Binge turns on confession and self-image, using obesity as the main course. Losing her familiar shape to overeating, Lynn Hershman occupies...

The final video in the four-part Cyborg series.