Lynn Hershman-Leeson Movies
- 2019
The Electronic Diaries
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A woman's personal life unfolds over twelve years in a video diary that simultaneously parallels and reflects global history. Personal fears and...
- 1990
Desire Inc.
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Four "seduction ads" placed on cable TV stations invite unexpected responses. This short film is about fantasy and desire in a mediated world.
- 2024
Cyborgian Rhapsody—Immortality
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The final video in the four-part Cyborg series.
- 1992
Seeing Is Believing
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Film becomes a metaphor for lost history and its “negative“ impact on successive generations who look for stability in an electronic...
- 2023
Immortality
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Written and performed by a Cyborg – a GPT-3 Chatbot, considers how to transform human discrimination and technological weapons into tools of...
- 1979
Test Patterns
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In this “factional docudrama,” a “test pattern man” personifies television media. When an interviewer asks him about his...
- 1986
Confessions of a Chameleon
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In Lynn Hershman’s Confessions of a Chameleon the artist shares intimate but highly suspect stories about her past. To cover her tracks,...
- 1978
Commercial for Myself
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This short “portrait” of the artist was screened on public television.