Kim Gordon Movies

  • 2004
    (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

    (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

    (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

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    While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion...

    (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
  • 2009
    Massage the History

    Massage the History

    Massage the History

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    Massage the History records amateur dancers, whom Jamie found accidentally online, who freely engage the quotidian domestic scene with their own...

    Massage the History
  • 1988
    Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

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    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...

    Put More Blood Into the Music
  • 2016
    Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words

    Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words

    Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words

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    Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on the occasion of their 2016 Gala event, 'Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words' traces two...

    Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
  • 2003
    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

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    Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this...

    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
  • 1986
    Death Valley '69

    Death Valley '69

    Death Valley '69

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    Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment...

    Death Valley '69
  • 1991
    Notebook

    Notebook

    Notebook

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    Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.

    Notebook
  • 1991
    Skeeno H.C. Rules

    Skeeno H.C. Rules

    Skeeno H.C. Rules

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    Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, &...

    Skeeno H.C. Rules
  • 2007
    Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East

    Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East

    Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East

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    Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur Jr. onstage, playing the songs "Gargoyle," "Little...

    Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
  • 1996
    Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

    Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

    Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

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    Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic...

    Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
  • 2011
    Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

    Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

    Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

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    The final Sonic Youth concert

    Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
  • 1984
    Rock My Religion

    Rock My Religion

    Rock My Religion

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    Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that...

    Rock My Religion
  • 2003
    Me Myself and the Universe

    Me Myself and the Universe

    Me Myself and the Universe

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    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...

    Me Myself and the Universe
  • 2000
    Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth

    Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth

    Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth

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    This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous...

    Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
  • 2024
    Picture Window

    Picture Window

    Picture Window

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    Gordon’s film Picture Window, directed together with Manuela Dalle, was inspired by Chantal Akerman’s film “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai...

    Picture Window
  • 2006
    Her Noise - The Making Of

    Her Noise - The Making Of

    Her Noise - The Making Of

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    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...

    Her Noise - The Making Of
  • 1993
    Grunge Pedal

    Grunge Pedal

    Grunge Pedal

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    Starring Vehicle for Free Kitten. Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz, & Mark Ibold lounge on suburban lawns, jamming a guitar effects box & Japanese beat...

    Grunge Pedal
  • 2013
    Une Danse Des Bouffons

    Une Danse Des Bouffons

    Une Danse Des Bouffons

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    In this Dadaist love story there are many recurring themes: death and rebirth, multiple identities and doppelgangers, false prophets, love and love...

    Une Danse Des Bouffons
  • 1985
    Making the Nature Scene

    Making the Nature Scene

    Making the Nature Scene

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    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...

    Making the Nature Scene
  • 2019
    Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

    Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

    Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

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    As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural...

    Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond