These strikingly prescient musings on technology, identity, and surveillance from innovative artist-filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson—whose work is also the subject of a major career survey this year at the New Museum in New York—toy cannily with the boundaries between the real and the virtual. All ...
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • 2007 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Coyote
This boundary-pushing documentary examines the Kafkaesque case of Steve Kurtz, an artist whose work deals with genetically modified food. When Kurtz’s wife Hope died of heart failure in ...
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • 2002 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak
Tilda Swinton plays four roles in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s feminist sci-fi brain-bender about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, (SRAs), which she cloned from her own...
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • 1997 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Timothy Leary, Karen Black
The first of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s philosophically adventurous, genre-defying collaborations with star Tilda Swinton casts the actor as Ada Lovelace, the radically ahead-of-her-time ninete...
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • 2007 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Coyote
This boundary-pushing documentary examines the Kafkaesque case of Steve Kurtz, an artist whose work deals with genetically modified food. When Kurtz’s wife Hope died of heart failure in ...
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • 2002 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak
Tilda Swinton plays four roles in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s feminist sci-fi brain-bender about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, (SRAs), which she cloned from her own...
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • 1997 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Timothy Leary, Karen Black
The first of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s philosophically adventurous, genre-defying collaborations with star Tilda Swinton casts the actor as Ada Lovelace, the radically ahead-of-her-time ninete...
