Patti Smith Movies

In 2010, Godard's Film Socialisme explores the sinking of political ideals in Europe. In 2012, the Costa Concordia, which had served as an...

The Song of Hiawatha: A Trip in the American Counterculture is a feature-length documentary film about Hiawatha Bailey, a gay Native-American and...

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Film tribute to Lou Reed, who died in October, which looks at the extraordinarily transgressive life and career of one of rock 'n' roll's true...

Born in 1941, Eric Burdon was – along with his band The Animals – one of the most important standard-bearers of the British Invasion of...

Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North...

This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close...

Concert film and interview from Patti Smith Group's 1976 visit to Stockholm shot for Swedish television.

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for...

Documentary of the band R.E.M. writing and recording their 1996 album "New Adventures in Hi-Fi.

In this 1995 made-for television biopic, see legendary musician and filmmaker Ivan Kral as he made music history. With guitar and camera in the 70s,...

Part of "The Women in Music" series

Short film by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. A portrait of Patti Smith.

Robert Mapplethorpe gets his nipple pierced while his boyfriend lends his support in person. Patti Smith lends her support via voice over as she...

At the age of 20, Patti Smith arrives in New York and upsets the codes of rock, poetry, and genre. She has become a living legend without ever...

Now well into his eighties, Delsener shows little sign of slowing down. At one point, the camera follows him as he ping-pongs across New York...

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that...

About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts his violent past and the suspicious death of his...

An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in...