Home of the Brave

A concert film that only Laurie Anderson could make, this self-directed record of a series of 1985 Union City, New Jersey, performances is an experience unlike any other. Blending video art, stylized choreography, and Anderson’s oddly infectious, synth-spiked anthems, HOME OF THE BRAVE is a time capsule back to the heyday of New York’s downtown avant-garde scene that explores Anderson’s signature themes of technology, language, gender, and identity with puckish wit and mesmerizing audiovisual invention. Look out for appearances from fellow experimental giants William S. Burroughs and Adrian Belew of King Crimson.