Laura Phillips Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

Filmography

• 2025Laurie Anderson Saint Joan of Arc Basilica, Paris
• 2023Own Forest — Music
• 2021Sisters with Transistors — Narrator (voice)
• 2021Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - Rocks — Director
• 2021Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The City — Director
• 2021Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Forest — Director
• 2021Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The River — Director
• 2021Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Road — Director
• 2020Walking While Falling — Music
• 2018To the Moon — Director
• 2017La Camera Insabbiata — Director
• 2017aloft — Director
• 2016Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera
• 2015Heart of a Dog — Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer, Draughtsman, Animation, Camera Operator, Original Music Composer
• 2010Homeland: The Story of the Lark
• 2010Miral — Songs
• 2006Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film — Narrator
• 2002McLuhan's Wake — Narrator
• 1998The Rugrats Movie — Newborn Baby (singing voice)
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
• Later... with Jools Holland
• 1992Monster in a Box — Original Music Composer
• 1991Carmen — Director
• 1991Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos — The Clones, Producer, Director, Art Direction
• 1991Sphinxes Without Secrets
• 1991The Human Face — Presenter
• Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton — Music
• 1989Talk Normal — Herself, Writer, Producer
• 1987Swimming to Cambodia — Original Music Composer
• 1986Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson — Self - Keyboards, Vocals / Fenway Bergamot / The Voice of Reason, Director, Visual Effects, Music Producer, Writer
• 1986Something Wild — Original Music Composer
• 1986The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July — Music
• 1986The World beyond the World — Music
• 1986What You Mean We? — Herself, Director, Writer
• Alive from Off Center — Host, Laurie Anderson & Clones, Writer, Director
• 1984Or D'Ur — Music
• 1983Closed Circuit — Sängerin
• 1983No York City — Music
• 1983Set and Reset — Music
• 1982Supermann — Music
• The South Bank Show
• 1977Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves — Writer, Music, Director

Appearances as themselves (34)

• 2026Nova '78 — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Free for All: The Public Library — Self
• 2025Thank You Very Much — Self
• 2025Why I Love The Stars — Self
• 2024Eno — Self
• 2023Buke & Gase — Self
• 2023Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between — Self
• 2020Symphony Of The Invisible — Self (voice)
• 2020The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space — Self
• 2019Museum Town — Self
• 2018Call Us Ishmael — Herself
• 2018Feminists: What Were They Thinking? — Self
• 2017Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait — Self
• Track Stories — Self
• 2012BAM150 — Self
• 2012Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel - So — Self
• 2011Brainwave — Self
• 2010Music — Self
• 2010William S. Burroughs: A Man Within — Self
• 2008A Not So Silent Night — Self
• 2007Why Birds Sing — Herself
• 2005John Peel's Record Box — Self
• 2002The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family' — Self
• Classic Albums — Self
• 1993The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros — Herself
• 1990John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It — Self
• 1990One World, One Voice — Self
• 1989Heavy Petting — Self
• 1985All Star Video — Self (archive footage)
• 1984Good Morning, Mr. Orwell — Self
• Bei Bio — Self
• 198114 Americans: Directions of the 1970s — Herself
• Okay — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Musical Guest