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Thom Andersen
Chicago, Illinois
Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and --- ------- (1967, with Malcol…
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Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and --- ------- (1967, with Malcolm Brodwick). In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, an hour-long documentation of Muybridge’s photographic work. In 1995, with Noël Burch, he completed Red Hollywood, a videotape about the filmwork created by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist. Their work on the history of the Blacklist also produced a book, Les Communistes de Hollywood: Autre chose que des martyrs, published in 1994. In 2003 he completed Los Angeles Plays Itself, a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies. It won the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival, and it was voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll. He has taught film composition at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987.
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2019
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to Be Built
Movie Voice-Over
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2017
California Here I Come
Movie Director
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2016
A Train Arrives at the Station
Movie Director
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2015
Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams
Movie Director
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2015
The Thoughts That Once We Had
Movie Director
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2015
California Sun
Movie Director
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2014
The Tony Longo Trilogy
Movie Director
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2012
Reconversion
Movie Director
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2011
Maurice
Movie Thanks
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2011
Twenty Cigarettes
Movie Self
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2010
Get Out of the Car
Movie Director
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2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself
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1996
Red Hollywood
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1984
Class Relations
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1975
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
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1974
Olivia's Place
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1967
--- -------- (Rock and Roll Movie)
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1965
Melting
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1964
Act Without Words
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