Arto Lindsay
Actor · b. 1953 · Richmond, Virginia, USA
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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Movie6.1ComedyCrimeA 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.
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985 · 539 votes
Movie5.6ComedyCrimeCookie 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.
Cookie
1989 · 27 votes
- Movie8.0
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 and directed by Tom Bowes.
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
1986 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DramaComedyThe 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 (and performances) we peek into.
Downtown '81
2001 · 32 votes
Movie5.9MusicDramaA mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.
Candy Mountain
1988 · 14 votes
Movie7.4DocumentaryMusicA 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current generation of would be icons and true innovators seeing to represent New York City in the 21st century
Kill Your Idols
2004 · 14 votes
- Movie10.0MusicDocumentary
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.
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009 · 1 votes
Movie5.2DramaMysteryAt 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.
Kiss Daddy Goodnight
1987 · 16 votes
Movie7.8DocumentaryMusicPBS 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.
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988 · 4 votes
Movie8.1DocumentaryMusicAn avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.
Step Across the Border
1990 · 13 votes
- Movie7.8DocumentaryMusic
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.
Kill Your Idols: More.
2006 · 4 votes
- MovieDocumentary
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.
Arto Lindsay Perdoa a Beleza (The Love Factory Series)
Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory
2004
Movie8.5MusicThe 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.
Marisa Monte: Mais
1991 · 2 votes
Movie8.0The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of a recent event 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 behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer
Letters to Dad
1979 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DocumentaryMusicFrancesca, 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”.By chance they find that they’re spending a week in Catania together, the Baroque city perched on the slopes of a volcano, the continual rumbling of which seems to reflect their restlessness…
- Movie6.5Science FictionDrama
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.
Men in Orbit
1979 · 6 votes
Movie8.5HorrorNo-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.
Ecstatic Stigmatic
1980 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentaryMusicArto Lindsay is an American experimental musician. His songs and works as a concept artist circulate through art galleries and theaters around the world.
Arto Lindsay 4D
2019
MovieMusicStudies 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.
MovieDocuments 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 was filmed in 1978 but not completed until 2009.