Cast & creator
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Best known for POV, Teknolust, Teknolust
Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has received international acclaim for her art and films. She is recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression. She is considered one of the most influential media artists and has made pioneering contributions in photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art. Her activist films on injustice within the art world and society at large have been praised worldwide. !Women Art Revolution! won first prize in the Montreal Festival for Films on Art and hailed by the Museum of Modern Art as one of the three best documentaries of 2012. Holland Cotter of the New York Times called it “the most comprehensive documentary ever made on the feminist art movement.” Her 2009 film Strange Culture – which the NY Time deemed “the perfect balance of form and content” and The Nation called “a brilliant and moving examination of fear and its manipulation” – resulted in the the release of an artist facing a prison sentence of 23 years.
Also known as: Lynn Hershman, Lynn Hershmann, Lynn Hershman Leeson
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television credits
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1976–2024 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (58)
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POV
Director
1988
Teknolust
Director
2002Teknolust
Producer
2002Teknolust
Screenplay
2002
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director
2019
Conceiving Ada
CD Rom (Voice)
1999Conceiving Ada
Director
1999Conceiving Ada
Producer
1999Conceiving Ada
Writer
1999Conceiving Ada
Production Design
1999Virtual Love
Director
1993Virtual Love
Writer
1993Longshot
Director
1989Longshot
Editor
1989
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
Herself
2010!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
Director
2010!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
Writer
2010!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
Editor
2010
Logic Paralyzes the Heart
Director
2022
Desire Inc.
1990Desire Inc.
Director
1990Desire Inc.
Editor
1990Bonwit Windows
Director
1976Tania Libre
Director
2017
Tell Them We Were Here
Self
2021
Life Squared
Narrator
2007Life Squared
Director
2007
VertiGhost
Director
2017VertiGhost
Editor
2017VertiGhost
Writer
2017VertiGhost
Producer
2017
Strange Culture
Writer
2007Strange Culture
Editor
2007Strange Culture
Director
2007Binge
Director
1987Test Patterns
Director
1979
Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone
1994Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone
Director
1994Lynn Turning into Roberta
Director
1978
Seduction of a Cyborg
Director
1994Seduction of a Cyborg
Writer
1994CyberBaby
Herself
1998CyberBaby
Director
1998
Shadow Stalker
Director
2019Shadow Stalker
Writer
2019Shadow Stalker
Editor
2019Shadow Stalker
Producer
2019Confessions of a Chameleon
Director
1986Seeing Is Believing
Director
1992Seeing Is Believing
Producer
1992Seeing Is Believing
Editor
1992Seeing Is Believing
Writer
1992Cyborgian Rhapsody—Immortality
Director
2024The Electronic Diaries
Director
2019Commercial for Myself
Director
1978Immortality
Director
2023
Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story
Director
1992Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story
Writer
1992