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Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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 investig…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2024
Cyborgian Rhapsody—Immortality
Movie Director
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2023
Immortality
Movie Director
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2022
Logic Paralyzes the Heart
Movie Director
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2021
Tell Them We Were Here
Movie Self
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2019
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Movie Director
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2019
Shadow Stalker
Movie Writer
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2019
The Electronic Diaries
Movie Director
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2017
VertiGhost
Movie Editor
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2017
Tania Libre
Movie Director
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2010
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
Movie Herself
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2007
Strange Culture
Movie Editor
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2007
Life Squared
Movie Narrator
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2002
Teknolust
Movie Director
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1999
Conceiving Ada
Movie CD Rom (Voice)
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1998
CyberBaby
Movie Herself
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1994
Seduction of a Cyborg
Movie Writer
More credits
- 1994
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1993
Virtual Love
Movie Director
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1992
Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story
Movie Writer
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1992
Seeing Is Believing
Movie Producer
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1990
Desire Inc.
Movie
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1989
Longshot
Movie Director
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1988
Point of View
TV show Director
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1987
Binge
Movie Director
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1986
Confessions of a Chameleon
Movie Director
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1979
Test Patterns
Movie Director
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1978
Lynn Turning into Roberta
Movie Director
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1978
Commercial for Myself
Movie Director
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1976
Bonwit Windows
Movie Director
