Lynn Hershman-Leeson Movies
- 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,...
- 1994
Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone
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This docudrama presents the history of the telephone, updated and told from the point of view of a character who uses the screen as both a connection...
- 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...
- 1978
Commercial for Myself
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This short “portrait” of the artist was screened on public television.
- 1978
Lynn Turning into Roberta
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This short film documents the transformation of Hershman Leeson into her performance persona, Roberta Breitmore.
- 2007
Life Squared
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This project uses mixed reality convergence through which users can participate in some of the digital existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now...
- 2017
VertiGhost
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VertiGhost, a newly commissioned work by Lynn Hershman Leeson for the Fine Arts Museums, draws the viewer into a meditation about notions of...
- 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...