Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Directing·Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
CCyborgian Rhapsody—Immortality2024 · Director	Director
IImmortality2023 · Director	Director
Logic Paralyzes the Heart2022 · Director	Director
Tell Them We Were Here2021 · Self	Self
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing2019 · Director	Director
Shadow Stalker2019 · Writer, Director, Producer	Writer, Director, Producer
TThe Electronic Diaries2019 · Director	Director
VertiGhost2017 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
TTania Libre2017 · Director	Director
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution2010 · Herself, Director, Writer	Herself, Director, Writer
Strange Culture2007 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Life Squared2007 · Narrator, Director	Narrator, Director
Teknolust2002 · Director, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Producer, Screenplay
Conceiving Ada1999 · CD Rom (Voice), Producer, Director, Writer	CD Rom (Voice), Producer, Director, Writer
CCyberBaby1998 · Herself, Director	Herself, Director
Seduction of a Cyborg1994 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone1994 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
VVirtual Love1993 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
SSeeing Is Believing1992 · Writer, Director, Producer	Writer, Director, Producer
Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story1992 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Desire Inc.1990 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
LLongshot1989 · Director	Director
BBinge1987 · Director	Director
CConfessions of a Chameleon1986 · Director	Director
TTest Patterns1979 · Director	Director
LLynn Turning into Roberta1978 · Director	Director
CCommercial for Myself1978 · Director	Director
BBonwit Windows1976 · Director	Director