Thurston Moore Movies

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Day Trip Maryanne captures the collaboration between legendary sound sculptor Maryanne Amacher and guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at her...

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

I Just Wasn't Made for These Times is a documentary about the life of Brian Wilson, the musical mastermind and songwriter for the Beach Boys. The...

The hallmarks of popular music - artist independence and diversity of voices - are threatened by a contracting marketplace of record companies, radio...

Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...

An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to...

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...

A short film made of still images from a series of site specific performances about the artist Jack Goldstein.

Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, Redd Kross are the ultimate rock and roll lifers....

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...

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

A documentary about saxophonist David S. Ware.

Billy Ruane, storied impresario of the 90s Boston indie music scene. Billy promoted shows and inspired cult-like followings of bands by the likes of...

Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal...

A fringe film collective of edge-dwelling New York nihilist punks and crazies whose main pathological protagonist triumvirate were voyeur smackhead...

Sonic Youth in 1991 on Neil Young's Smell the Horse tour, captured by Crazy Horse Guitar/Bass Tech Mondo aka Armando Garcia.

The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's...

A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full with a bonus encore of Rather Ripped songs at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.

This documentary tells the story of Mudhoney from their very beginnings, to following them on their recent world tour and everything in between....