Arto Lindsay
Also Known As: Arthur Morgan Lindsay, Arto Lindsey
Biography: 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Birthday: May 28, 1953
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Gender: Male
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Kill Your Idols
Overview: A 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
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-08
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Marisa Monte: Mais
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-10-27
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The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-03
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-07-03
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X Magazine Benefit
Overview: 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 was filmed in 1978 but not completed until 2009.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Kill Your Idols: More.
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Downtown '81
Overview: 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 (and performances) we peek into.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-13
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OK Today Tomorrow
Overview: 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 and ’70s, and classic avant-garde film, leaving only traces of their generic conventions. For the first hour of OK Today Tomorrow, he stages a series of fraught encounters around the city between four gentrified New Yorkers before abandoning his vague narrative of youthful angst altogether in favor of documenting the urban landscape itself. The dusk-to-dawn “city symphony” that ends the film resembles similar Super8 social studies by Vogl’s uptown contemporary John Ahearn; both recorded the daily lives of working-class black and immigrant communities on the streets of a city on the verge of the corporate takeover and sweeping gentrification that followed in the 1980s and ’90s. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Step Across the Border
Overview: An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-08
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Ecstatic Stigmatic
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-13
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Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-11-01
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Put More Blood Into the Music
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-06
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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Men in Orbit
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-10
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A Matter of Facts
Overview: 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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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-04
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Candy Mountain
Overview: A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-20
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Money
Overview: 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 of Manhattan for the ambient sounds and movements and occasional pedestrian interaction to create a rich tapestry of swirling colors and juxtaposed architectural spaces in deep focus and present the intense urban overflowing energy that is experience living here. Money is thematically centered around a discussion of economic problems facing avant-garde artists. Discussion, however, is fragmented into words and phrases and reassembled into writing. Musical and movement phrases are woven through this conversation to create an almost operatic composition. Give me money!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Subtle Interferences
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-11-28
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Arto Lindsay 4D
Overview: Arto Lindsay is an American experimental musician. His songs and works as a concept artist circulate through art galleries and theaters around the world.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-12-09
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Kiss Daddy Goodnight
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-29
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