Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay

Born: May 28, 1953
in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Arthur Morgan 'Arto' Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He first achieved recognition as part of New York no wave group DNA in the late 1970s.

He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick as "studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey". His guitar work is contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes.

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Arto Lindsay 4D
Title: Arto Lindsay 4D
Released: December 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Arto Lindsay is an American experimental musician. His songs and works as a concept artist circulate through art galleries and theaters around the world.
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Subtle Interferences
Title: Subtle Interferences
Released: November 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Studies on sound based on the work of musician Arto Lindsay and the relationship of the body/camera with music. The film discusses art as lyrically as the biographee’s own work.
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Title: No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 2009
Type: Movie
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, and others. An important film. Bravo, Mr. Dreher.
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X Magazine Benefit
Title: X Magazine Benefit
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Documents performances of DNA, James Chance and the Contortions, and Boris Policeband in NYC at a benefit concert for X Motion Picture Magazine and artists’ group Collaborative Projects Inc. It was shot in black and white super 8 and edited on video. It was filmed in 1978 but not completed until 2009.
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Kill Your Idols: More.
Title: Kill Your Idols: More.
Character: Himself
Released: August 11, 2006
Type: Movie
A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS.
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Kill Your Idols
Title: Kill Your Idols
Character: Himself
Released: April 8, 2004
Type: Movie
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current generation of would be icons and true innovators seeing to represent New York City in the 21st century
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Downtown '81
Title: Downtown '81
Character: Self
Released: July 13, 2001
Type: Movie
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
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Marisa Monte: Mais
Title: Marisa Monte: Mais
Character: Arto Lindsay
Released: October 27, 1991
Type: Movie
The documentary follows the genesis of Marisa Monte's album Mais in New York City and the subsequent tour that supported the album from 1991 to 1992.
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Step Across the Border
Title: Step Across the Border
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 1990
Type: Movie
An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.
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Put More Blood Into the Music
Title: Put More Blood Into the Music
Character: Himself
Released: August 6, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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Candy Mountain
Title: Candy Mountain
Character: Arto
Released: January 20, 1988
Type: Movie
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
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The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
Title: The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
Released: September 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the program, which was produced for the Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman and directed by Tom Bowes.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Title: Desperately Seeking Susan
Character: Newspaper Clerk
Released: March 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
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Money
Title: Money
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Money (1985) is an historical document of the early days of "language poetry" and the downtown improvised music scene. A manic collage film from the mid-80s when it still seemed that Reaganism of the soul could be defeated. Filmed primarily on the streets of Manhattan for the ambient sounds and movements and occasional pedestrian interaction to create a rich tapestry of swirling colors and juxtaposed architectural spaces in deep focus and present the intense urban overflowing energy that is experience living here. Money is thematically centered around a discussion of economic problems facing avant-garde artists. Discussion, however, is fragmented into words and phrases and reassembled into writing. Musical and movement phrases are woven through this conversation to create an almost operatic composition. Give me money!
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OK Today Tomorrow
Title: OK Today Tomorrow
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began making Super8 films in New York that stripped away the stylistic markers of Hollywood, New Wave cinema of the 1960s and ’70s, and classic avant-garde film, leaving only traces of their generic conventions. For the first hour of OK Today Tomorrow, he stages a series of fraught encounters around the city between four gentrified New Yorkers before abandoning his vague narrative of youthful angst altogether in favor of documenting the urban landscape itself. The dusk-to-dawn “city symphony” that ends the film resembles similar Super8 social studies by Vogl’s uptown contemporary John Ahearn; both recorded the daily lives of working-class black and immigrant communities on the streets of a city on the verge of the corporate takeover and sweeping gentrification that followed in the 1980s and ’90s. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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A Matter of Facts
Title: A Matter of Facts
Released: November 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Starting with a scene from Squat Theatre's "Mr Dead and Mrs Free" shot in their storefront theatre on West 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York, "A Matter of Facts" draws a parallel narrative which follows the characters from the theatre into real life.
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Ecstatic Stigmatic
Title: Ecstatic Stigmatic
Released: April 13, 1980
Type: Movie
No-Wave film directed by Gordon Stevenson from Teenage Jesus & the Jerks. Mirielle Cervenka (Exene's sister) plays a young woman named Rose who is afflicted with a case of extreme stigmata.
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Men in Orbit
Title: Men in Orbit
Character: Voice
Released: April 10, 1979
Type: Movie
A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit New York living room that has been transformed into a spacecraft.