Diamanda Galás

Diamanda Galás

Born: August 29, 1955
in San Diego, California, USA
Diamanda Galás is a Greek-American avant-garde dramatic soprano, composer, pianist, organist, performance artist, and painter.

Movies for Diamanda Galás...

Sinema
Title: Sinema
Character: Herself
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
A 96 minute internet video collage made during a particularly disorientating time.
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Schrei 27
Title: Schrei 27
Released: April 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Galás is known for her arresting concert performances and has been seen in the Barbican Hall on several occasions. SPILL and the Barbican are proud to present this important film installation which deals with asylum institutionalisation, originally commissioned by New American Radio and the Waker Arts Center in Minneapolis (US). Witness several short performances over the space of twenty-seven minutes alternating extreme high-energy vocal work with absolute silence. These performances reflect the state of a patient subjected to torture through chemical or mechanical manipulation of the brain, kept in a confined space with periodically or randomly triggered bright light, heat, beatings or rapes. There is a high density of speech-sound over time which is often machine-like in its velocity. The work employs the atypical speech and vocal signal processing that Galás has been researching since 1979.
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Her Noise - The Making Of
Title: Her Noise - The Making Of
Released: November 26, 2006
Type: Movie
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 Noise gathered international artists who use sound to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes. The exhibition included newly commissioned works by Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Hayley Newman, Kaffe Matthews, Christina Kubisch, Emma Hedditch and Marina Rosenfeld. A parallel ambition of the project was to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and the curators set out to create a lasting resource in this area.
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The Red Thread
Title: The Red Thread
Released: October 22, 1993
Type: Movie
Second part of Brown's Air Cries 'Empty Water' trilogy.
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Judgement Day
Title: Judgement Day
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Rare VHS tape of Diamanda Galás performing in 1993.
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Sphinxes Without Secrets
Title: Sphinxes Without Secrets
Released: August 29, 1991
Type: Movie
Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In "Sphinxes Without Secrets", performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.
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Plague Mass
Title: Plague Mass
Released: April 1, 1991
Type: Movie
"Heart-wrenching cry about the physical suffering caused by the AIDS plague being compounded by the shameful arrogance of self-appointed moralists."
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IDn3
Title: IDn3
Released: October 21, 1990
Type: Movie
A family travels through Egypt in 6 months.
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Positive
Title: Positive
Character: Herself
Released: May 4, 1990
Type: Movie
This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
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Silence = Death
Title: Silence = Death
Character: Herself
Released: February 16, 1990
Type: Movie
AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Title: The Serpent and the Rainbow
Character: Voices of the Dead
Released: February 5, 1988
Type: Movie
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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Diamanda Galas: The Litanies of Satan
Title: Diamanda Galas: The Litanies of Satan
Released: June 10, 1986
Type: Movie
Live performance of Diamanda Galas in 1985, released by Target Video. The performance, based on a poem by Charles Baudelaire, devotes itself to the emaraldine perversity of the life struggle in hell.