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Lynn Hershman-Leeson
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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.186 |
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Place of Birth | Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
Also Known As | Lynn Hershman, Lynn Hershmann, Lynn Hershman Leeson, |
![!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bUfLZKgGUXQMZLI7d9tUlT1Vdt9.jpg)
2010
![!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bUfLZKgGUXQMZLI7d9tUlT1Vdt9.jpg)
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
4.7/15
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing politic...
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!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
![Desire Inc.](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1990
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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.
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Desire Inc.
![Life Squared](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
2007
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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 h...
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Life Squared
![Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yTqoi2ma4p7fdZopxjMBjAJl9yW.jpg)
1994
![Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yTqoi2ma4p7fdZopxjMBjAJl9yW.jpg)
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...
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Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone
![CyberBaby](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1998
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CyberBaby
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In this video series an individual confronts fears and, through the process of confessing directly to the camera, transcends trauma. It is also about...
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CyberBaby
![Tell Them We Were Here](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/29OPh7aa2JdNXLjvfVOntiWcN8E.jpg)
2021
![Tell Them We Were Here](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/29OPh7aa2JdNXLjvfVOntiWcN8E.jpg)
Tell Them We Were Here
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Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and remind...
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