Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Directing
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
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Immortality
2023
Director
movieShadow Stalker
2019
Director
movieVertiGhost
2017
Director
Tania Libre
2017
Director
movieStrange Culture
2007
Director
movieLife Squared
2007
Director
movieTeknolust
2002
Director
movieConceiving Ada
1999
Director
CyberBaby
1998
Director
movieSeduction of a Cyborg
1994
Director
movieDesire Inc.
1990
Director
Longshot
1989
Director
tvPoint of View
1988
Director
Binge
1987
Director
Writing10
movieShadow Stalker
2019
Writer
movieVertiGhost
2017
Writer
movieStrange Culture
2007
Writer
movieTeknolust
2002
Screenplay
movieConceiving Ada
1999
Writer
Acting7
Editing7
Production5
movieShadow Stalker
2019
Producer
movieVertiGhost
2017
Producer
movieTeknolust
2002
Producer
movieConceiving Ada
1999
Producer
Art1
movieConceiving Ada
1999
Production Design