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Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay

Arthur Morgan 'Arto' Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He first achieved recognition as part of New York no wave group DNA in the late 1970s.

He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick as "studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey". His guitar work is contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes.

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Movies Starring Arto Lindsay (23)

Arto Lindsay 4D (2019)

Arto Lindsay is an American experimental musician. His songs and works as a concept artist circulate through art galleries and theaters around the world. ...

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Subtle Interferences (2016)

Studies on sound based on the work of musician Arto Lindsay and the relationship of the body/camera with music. The film discusses art as lyrically as the biographee's own work. ...

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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York (2009)

the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, and others. An important film. Bravo, Mr. Dreher. ...

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X Magazine Benefit (2009)

Documents performances of DNA, James Chance and the Contortions, and Boris Policeband in NYC at a benefit concert for X Motion Picture Magazine and artists' group Collaborative Projects Inc. It was shot in black and white super 8 and edited on video. It w ...

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Kill Your Idols: More. (2006)

A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS. ...

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Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory (2004)

In the void created ad hoc to throw us into desperation, fear, shock, the torment of an infinite present, Arto Lindsay sings with words, silences and small gestures of/with/for/about love, a force that is so violent that nothing will ever be the same again ...

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Kill Your Idols (2004)

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC. ...

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Dream Generation (2003)

Francesca, Morgana, Edo and Antonio. Four of today's youngsters. Four inadvertent representatives of today's generation of 20-year-olds who "do whatever I want". ...

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Downtown '81 (2001)

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives ...

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Marisa Monte: Mais (1991)

The documentary follows the genesis of Marisa Monte's album Mais in New York City and the subsequent tour that supported the album from 1991 to 1992. ...

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Step Across the Border (1990)

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. ...

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Cookie (1989)

Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter. ...

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Put More Blood Into the Music (1988)

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988. ...

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Candy Mountain (1988)

A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker. ...

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Kiss Daddy Goodnight (1987)

At night, baby-face Laura dresses up as a vamp and lets random guys at bars pick her up, just to drug and rob them later. But then someone starts stalking her, and a person close to her is killed. ...

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The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July (1986)

Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the program, which was produced for the Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman a ...

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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery. ...

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Money (1985)

Money (1985) is an historical document of the early days of "language poetry" and the downtown improvised music scene. A manic collage film from the mid-80s when it still seemed that Reaganism of the soul could be defeated. Filmed primarily on the streets ...

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OK Today Tomorrow (1983)

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began making Super8 films in New York that stripped away the stylistic markers of Hollywood, New Wave cinema of the 1960s an ...

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A Matter of Facts (1982)

Starting with a scene from Squat Theatre's "Mr Dead and Mrs Free" shot in their storefront theatre on West 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York, "A Matter of Facts" draws a parallel narrative which follows the characters from the theatre into real life. ...

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Ecstatic Stigmatic (1980)

No-Wave film directed by Gordon Stevenson from Teenage Jesus & the Jerks. Mirielle Cervenka (Exene's sister) plays a young woman named Rose who is afflicted with a case of extreme stigmata. ...

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Men in Orbit (1979)

A "sci-fi povera" film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit New York living room that has been transformed into a spacecraft. ...

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Letters to Dad (1979)

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behav ...

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Movies Made By Arto Lindsay (4)

Belle comme le jour (2012)

Setting up as the prequel of two existing films of similar name, Belle de jour by Luis Buñuel, and Belle toujours by Manoel de Oliveira, the film is about the new story of Severine, the main character, with Paris as background. Two artists' ideas to recom ...

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Noel: The Samba Poet (2007)

The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of Brazil's best poets and composers. ...

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Death By Unnatural Causes (1991)

A visceral homage to those living and dying under the shadow of AIDS in a world run amok. ...

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Down by Law (1986)

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans. ...

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