Lee Ranaldo Movies
- 2011

Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
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The second last show on Sonic Youth's sad final stanza, a festival tour of South America that eventually took them to Chile for the Maquinaria...
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- 1991

Notebook
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Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.
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- 1970

Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
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June 16, 1996 Golden Gate Park San Francisco
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- 2014

Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
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For over 30 years, Martin Bisi has been recording music from his studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. He has worked with many influential musicians,...
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- 2025

The System
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- 1986

Submit to Me
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Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director...
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- 2017

Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
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Filmed during dozens of recording sessions, Hello Hello Hello is a story of the creative process - Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) collaborating with...
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- 2003

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
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Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...
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- 2014

Sex and Broadcasting
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SEX AND BROADCASTING is a feature length documentary about New Jersey's WFMU, the world's strangest and most unique radio station, and one man's...
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- 1995

The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
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Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
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- 2023

Velvet Suite
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Lee Renaldo, Pascal Comelade and Ramon Prats perform a legacy-inspired suite on the Velvet Undergroud. Manuel Huerga captured the dress rehearsal and...
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- 2021

Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
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The American indie rock band “Dinosaur Jr.” is a radical group with an unmistakeable sound. The film tells the story the three...
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- 1991

Skeeno H.C. Rules
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Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, &...
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- 2004

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
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While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion...
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- 2005

DRIFT
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DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive...
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- 2018

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
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The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double...
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- 1985

Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
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This was a concert video released thru Sonic Death, filmed on January 5th, 1985 in the Mojave Desert. This was SY's first west coast excursion.
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- 2005

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
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A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise...
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- 1995

Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
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All of the band 80's music videos along with some live performances
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- 2025

Salt Marsh
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A portrait of Maine artist Mitchell Rasor’s wintertime salt marsh drawings. Filmed in the Spears Farm Estuary Preserve on the Royal River in...
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