Movies: Kim Gordon

Part of "The Women in Music" series...

Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA hou...

In this Dadaist love story there are many recurring themes: death and rebirth, multiple identities and doppelgangers, false prophets, love and love lost, the corruption of power and fragility of what is real or true. Using a recreation of Marcel Duch...

Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City. Part of the first wave of Am...

Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur Jr. onstage, playing the songs "Gargoyle," "Little Fury Things," "Just Like Heaven," and more. Also included is rare behind-the-scenes footage featurin...

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....

Gordon walks around wielding her guitar over the wreckage like some almighty angle grinder....

A collection of short films and music videos from independent filmmaker David Markey, from 1974 to 2004....

Gordon, with Eleanor Erdman, delivers a brilliant and blistering assault of distorted guitar noise. The two of them gyrate on a stage barely more than a few square metres in size. Across three screens the camerawork feels as claustrophobic as the sta...

A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007....

Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself, this deadpan narrative pays dubious homage to the 1960's radical underground. In this crudely render...

Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals....

Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noise gathered international artists who use sound to investigate social relations, inspire action or u...

Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on the occasion of their 2016 Gala event, 'Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words' traces two recurring themes in the artist's 60-year oeuvre....

Like a hand-held electric sander Gordon’s guitar touches, rubs against and glides over the everyday objects of the city. Largely ignored by the passing crowd Gordon moves like an alien, using sound to examine and interpret place and time as perhaps o...

Long before Kim Gordon was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Body/Head, she was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Sonic Youth. In the ’80s, Gordon and her bandmates were fixtures of New York’s downtown art and music scene; one regular hau...

Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that begins with the Shakers, an early religious community who practiced self-denial and ecstatic trance dan...

Gordon’s film Picture Window, directed together with Manuela Dalle, was inspired by Chantal Akerman’s film “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”. This reverent nod to what some refer to as “the greatest film of all time” stars Gordon ...

This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous video clips and films of live gigs as well as interviews with, and reminiscences of, collaborators over the y...

Four people talk about aspects of their work. A flight attendant on a 747 shows us some of what's involved in getting the cabin ready for the next flight. A man in a hardhat discusses the capacity of a huge steam shovel shaped like a wheel, as it tur...