Michael Gira
Also Known As: M. Gira
Biography: Michael Rolfe Gira is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist. He is the main force behind the New York City musical group Swans and fronts Angels of Light. He is also the founder of Young God Records.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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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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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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Swans – A Long Slow Screw.
Overview: Features live footage from the Greed/Holy Money tour in 1986 in London and Nottingham and the A Long Slow Screw video.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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Swans - Primavera Sound 2013 Live
Overview: Swans recorded live in 2013. Track listing: To Be Kind - Just a Little Boy - Coward - She Loves Us - Oxygen - The Seer - Bring The Sun / Toussaint L'Ouverture
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-25
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Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
Overview: For over 30 years, Martin Bisi has been recording music from his studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. He has worked with many influential musicians, including Sonic Youth, Swans, Herbie Hancock, Brian Eno and the Dresden Dolls. Now though, he finds himself squeezed in by the approaching gentrification of his neighborhood.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-17
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Swans: Nox Orae 2023
Overview: Swans performs at the festival in Switzerland
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-15
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Swans: To Be Kind - Live 2013 DVD
Overview: Extra DVD included with some versions of the album. A live performance, recorded in 2013.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-03
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Swans: The Seer - Live DVD
Overview: SWANS recorded live 2010/2011. Track listing: No Words / No Thoughts (18:50) - Avatar (10:36) - The Apostate (19:31) - Beautiful Child (Fragment) (3:43) - Jim (8:16) - Sex God Sex (7:13) - The Seer / I Crawled (32:16)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-28
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Swans - To Be Kind Live
Overview: SWANS recorded live 2013. Track listing: To Be Kind (20:41) - Just a Little Boy (10:06) - Coward (8:36) - She Loves Us (18:17) - Oxygen (7:17) - The Seer / Toussaint L'Ouverture (45:35)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-12
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Swans: The Glowing Man - Live 2015 DVD
Overview: Included in some CD releases of the Swans album The Glowing Man. Recorded live in 2015.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-17
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NYC Foetus
Overview: A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring interviews with Thirlwell, Matt Johnson (The The), Alex Hacke (Neubauten), Michael Gira (Swans), Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch and more.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-15
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Parallel Planes
Overview: 'Parallel Planes' is a documentary film portraying 12 American avant-garde & punk-rock musicians. It is a journey between genres, an essay on free thinking and an intimate look at how 12 critical players relate to the potential of music.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-31
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Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Overview: From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world, one whose concerts are more like ecstatic rituals than nostalgic trips. SWANS has always been a collection of singular performers, but there's been one constant since its formation in 1982--singer, songwriter Michael Gira. 'Where Does a Body End?' is a SWANS documentary with unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs. An unfiltered story of a life in the arts, frequent difficulty spanning decades without a safety net, creating work because Gira says "What else am I going to do?"
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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Kings of Independence
Overview: Live footage with three bands: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Crime And The City Solution, Swans. Recorded at Knopf's Music Hall, Hamburg, August 15th, 1987.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-15
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Michael Gira: I Wonder If I’m Singing What You’re Thinking Me to Sing (Live Solo 2022)
Overview: Michael Gira performing live and solo in 2022.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-30
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Swans: (Rope) The Beggar (Live 2024)
Overview: Swans final New York show in 2024 included on a limited-edition DVD available with initial CD and vinyl pressings of Birthing.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-30
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