About

Known credits:
57
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Place of birth:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Overview

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

Acting
2021 Tell Them We Were Here Actor Self N/A
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2010 !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution Actor Herself 58
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2007 Life Squared Actor Narrator N/A
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1999 Conceiving Ada Actor CD Rom (Voice) 58
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1998 CyberBaby Actor Herself N/A
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1994 Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone Actor N/A
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1990 Desire Inc. Actor N/A
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Directing
2024 Cyborgian Rhapsody—Immortality Directing Director N/A
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2023 Immortality Directing Director N/A
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2022 Logic Paralyzes the Heart Directing Director N/A
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2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing Directing Director 58
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2019 Shadow Stalker Directing Director N/A
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2019 The Electronic Diaries Directing Director N/A
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2017 VertiGhost Directing Director N/A
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2017 Tania Libre Directing Director N/A
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2010 !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution Directing Director 58
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2007 Strange Culture Directing Director 58
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2007 Life Squared Directing Director N/A
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2002 Teknolust Directing Director 57
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1999 Conceiving Ada Directing Director 58
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1998 CyberBaby Directing Director N/A
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1994 Seduction of a Cyborg Directing Director N/A
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1994 Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone Directing Director N/A
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1993 Virtual Love Directing Director N/A
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1992 Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story Directing Director N/A
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1992 Seeing Is Believing Directing Director N/A
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1990 Desire Inc. Directing Director N/A
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1989 Longshot Directing Director N/A
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1987 Binge Directing Director N/A
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1986 Confessions of a Chameleon Directing Director N/A
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1979 Test Patterns Directing Director N/A
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1978 Lynn Turning into Roberta Directing Director N/A
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1978 Commercial for Myself Directing Director N/A
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1976 Bonwit Windows Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2019 Shadow Stalker Writing Writer N/A
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2017 VertiGhost Writing Writer N/A
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2010 !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution Writing Writer 58
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2007 Strange Culture Writing Writer 58
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2002 Teknolust Writing Screenplay 57
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1999 Conceiving Ada Writing Writer 58
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1994 Seduction of a Cyborg Writing Writer N/A
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1993 Virtual Love Writing Writer N/A
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1992 Seeing Is Believing Writing Writer N/A
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1992 Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2019 Shadow Stalker Production Producer N/A
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2017 VertiGhost Production Producer N/A
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2002 Teknolust Production Producer 57
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1999 Conceiving Ada Production Producer 58
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1992 Seeing Is Believing Production Producer N/A
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Art
1999 Conceiving Ada Art Production Design 58
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Editing
2019 Shadow Stalker Editing Editor N/A
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2017 VertiGhost Editing Editor N/A
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2010 !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution Editing Editor 58
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2007 Strange Culture Editing Editor 58
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1992 Seeing Is Believing Editing Editor N/A
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1990 Desire Inc. Editing Editor N/A
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1989 Longshot Editing Editor N/A
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