Lynn Hershman-Leeson Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this “factional docudrama,” a “test pattern man” personifies television media. When an interviewer asks him about his...

VertiGhost, a newly commissioned work by Lynn Hershman Leeson for the Fine Arts Museums, draws the viewer into a meditation about notions of...

This short “portrait” of the artist was screened on public television.

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

The final video in the four-part Cyborg series.

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...

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

Documentary about an art installtion.

Cyborg #1, a sentient being who adopts the guise of a human through actress Joan Chen, engages in an exercise of self-reflection on her role in...