Zeena Parkins Movies

  • 2002
    Björk: Vespertine Live at the Royal Opera House

    Björk: Vespertine Live at the Royal Opera House

    Björk: Vespertine Live at the Royal Opera House

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    A live performance by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk recorded at the Royal Opera House in London, England on December 16, 2001. Björk...

    Björk: Vespertine Live at the Royal Opera House
  • 2014
    River of Fundament

    River of Fundament

    River of Fundament

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    Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

    River of Fundament
  • 1990
    Step Across the Border

    Step Across the Border

    Step Across the Border

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    An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

    Step Across the Border
  • 2001
    Björk: Live at Riverside Church

    Björk: Live at Riverside Church

    Björk: Live at Riverside Church

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    Björk performs an intimate and uplifting set in NYC's Riverside Church accompanied by harpist Zeena Parkins, Matmos and a female Inuit choir....

    Björk: Live at Riverside Church
  • 2004
    The Time We Killed

    The Time We Killed

    The Time We Killed

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    The Time We Killed portrays the inner life of a writer unable to leave her Brooklyn apartment on the brink of the US invasion of Iraq. Robyn Taylor...

    The Time We Killed
  • 2008
    Minot, North Dakota

    Minot, North Dakota

    Minot, North Dakota

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    The town Minot is home to a U.S. Air Force base that guards 150 nuclear missiles buried in northern North Dakota. The weapons of mass destruction...

    Minot, North Dakota
  • 2004
    Still Life

    Still Life

    Still Life

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    Still Life gazes unflinchingly at the violence of war, observing the eerie architecture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip collapsed under Israeli...

    Still Life
  • 1988
    SSS

    SSS

    SSS

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    SSS is composed from footage of movement improvised on the streets of pre-gentrified East Village by Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Harry Shepperd, Lee...

    SSS
  • 2002
    Sites Unseen

    Sites Unseen

    Sites Unseen

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    Sites Unseen is a 3 channel 16mm projection of the Jewish cemetary in Warsaw, a photograph of a great Aunt who died in Treblinka, and my late...

    Sites Unseen
  • 2019
    Tonight the World

    Tonight the World

    Tonight the World

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    Tonight the World draws from a cross-section of dream diaries kept by Martin’s grandmother, Susi Stiassni, who fled the imminent Nazi...

    Tonight the World
  • 1998
    Treyf

    Treyf

    Treyf

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    TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a...

    Treyf
  • 1995
    Hole: MTV Unplugged

    Hole: MTV Unplugged

    Hole: MTV Unplugged

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    On February 14, 1995, Hole recorded a live acoustic performance in front of an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Along with...

    Hole: MTV Unplugged
  • 2007
    Harpstrings and Lava

    Harpstrings and Lava

    Harpstrings and Lava

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    Part of the Performa07 Biennial, Harpstrings and Lava channels the tension inherent in certain nightmares, specifically in one friend's ghoulish...

    Harpstrings and Lava
  • 1995
    Soi-Meme

    Soi-Meme

    Soi-Meme

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    Sound composition by Zeena Parkins. Erotic dance performance by Goddess Rosemary.

    Soi-Meme
  • 2003
    Björk: Miniscule

    Björk: Miniscule

    Björk: Miniscule

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    A documentary offering a behind-the-scenes look at Björk and her touring entourage for the 2001 Vespertine World Tour. It includes interviews...

    Björk: Miniscule