Jim O'Rourke Movies

  • 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 video cli...

    Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
  • 2003
    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

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

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
  • 2005
    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

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    With Herzog's direction, Richard Thompson leads a small group of musicians into creating Grizzly Man's evocative soundtrack.

    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
  • 2016
    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

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    Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad.

    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
  • 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
  • 2019
    Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

    Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

    Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

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    In May 1997, Tim Taylor, creative force behind the beloved Dayton, Ohio rock weirdos BRAINIAC, was on the verge of his band signing to a major record...

    Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
  • 2006
    Noise

    Noise

    Noise

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    Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.

    Noise
  • 2009
    Kikoe

    Kikoe

    Kikoe

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    Experimental documentary about Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide. Includes interviews with multiple musicians, artists, and writers as we...

    Kikoe
  • 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 Noi...

    Her Noise - The Making Of
  • 2007
    Prisoner/Terrorist

    Prisoner/Terrorist

    Prisoner/Terrorist

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    During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment i...

    Prisoner/Terrorist