Movies: Zeena Parkins
- 2014
River of Fundament (2014)
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Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filme...
- 1995
Hole: MTV Unplugged (1995)
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On February 14, 1995, Hole recorded a live acoustic performance in front of an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Along with a string ensemble, The group played a mix of hits off "Live Through This," plus new material, covers...
- 2001
Björk: Live at Riverside Church (2001)
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Björk performs an intimate and uplifting set in NYC's Riverside Church accompanied by harpist Zeena Parkins, Matmos and a female Inuit choir. This special aired exclusively on HBO Reverb....
- 1990
Step Across the Border (1990)
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An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith....
- 1998
Treyf (1998)
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TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With personal narration, real and imagined educational films, and haunting imagery, filmmakers Alisa Lebow and...
- 2002
Björk: Vespertine Live – Royal Opera House 2001 (2002)
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Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk performs tracks from her Vespertine album in this 2001 performance at London's Royal Opera House....
- 2004
The Time We Killed (2004)
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The Time We Killed portrays the inner life of a writer unable to leave her Brooklyn apartment on the brink of the US invasion of Iraq. Robyn Taylor tries to kick her growing agoraphobia by re-imagining her past and contemplating world events of the ...
- 2019
Tonight the World (2019)
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Tonight the World draws from a cross-section of dream diaries kept by Martin’s grandmother, Susi Stiassni, who fled the imminent Nazi occupation of Czechoslavakia in 1938. Through five chapters, the film links as many dreams sited in Susi’s childhoo...
- 1988
SSS (1988)
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SSS is composed from footage of movement improvised on the streets of pre-gentrified East Village by Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Harry Shepperd, Lee Katz, Kumiko Kimoto, David Zambrano, Ginger Gillespie, Mark Dendy, and others, painstaking synched to m...
- 2004
Still Life (2004)
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Still Life gazes unflinchingly at the violence of war, observing the eerie architecture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip collapsed under Israeli occupation. This portrait provides brutal witness to how government sanctioned destruction metes upon stru...
- 2008
Minot, North Dakota (2008)
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The town Minot is home to a U.S. Air Force base that guards 150 nuclear missiles buried in northern North Dakota. The weapons of mass destruction placed there 50 years ago are still targeted at Russia. Minot, North Dakota portrays an American landsca...
- 2016
We Are Humans (2016)
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A film by Rose Glass for Weightless Animals' song 'humans are here'...
- 1995
Soi-Meme (1995)
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Sound composition by Zeena Parkins. Erotic dance performance by Goddess Rosemary....
- 2002
Sites Unseen (2002)
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Sites Unseen is a 3 channel 16mm projection of the Jewish cemetary in Warsaw, a photograph of a great Aunt who died in Treblinka, and my late grandmother eating her morning cornflakes....
- 2007
Harpstrings and Lava (2007)
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Part of the Performa07 Biennial, Harpstrings and Lava channels the tension inherent in certain nightmares, specifically in one friend's ghoulish fantasy about clashing contradictions. In this particular recurrent dream, tensile harpstrings and viscou...