Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and — ——- (1967, with Malcolm Brodwick). In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, an hour-long documentation of Muybridge’s photographic work. In 1995, with Noël Burch, he completed Red Hollywood, a videotape about the filmwork created by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist. Their work on the history of the Blacklist also produced a book, Les Communistes de Hollywood: Autre chose que des martyrs, published in 1994. In 2003 he completed Los Angeles Plays Itself, a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies. It won the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival, and it was voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll. He has taught film composition at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987.
Thom Andersen Biography / Wiki
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Chicago, Illinois
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Thom Andersen Acting Movies
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The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to be Built
Voice-Over
2018-01-01
“The House Is Yet To Be Built†is a travelogue to places which defy the surface of the world….
Twenty Cigarettes
Himself
2011-02-17
Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, TWENTY CIGARETTES. R…
Thom Andersen Directing Movies
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Director
2003-09-07
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen …
A Train Arrives at the Station
Director
2016-01-07
“This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There was o…
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Director
1975-09-28
Thom Andersen’s remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. …
Get Out of the Car
Director
2010-09-01
A city symphony film in 16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished cu…
Reconversão
Director
2012-08-11
With Reconversão (Reconversion), Thom Andersen opens another fascinating chapter of his ongoing investigation of architectural landscapes, their film…
Red Hollywood
Director
1996-08-16
A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in t…
Act Without Words
Director
1964-01-01
Andersen’s first extant work as a filmmaker, made as group project while he was a film student at the University of Southern California. A spirited a…
The Tony Longo Trilogy
Director
2014-08-12
Although he has been limited to bit parts, the actor Tony Longo is an axiom of American action cinema: the giant who is too soft-hearted for the job. …
The Thoughts That Once We Had
Director
2015-03-06
One of America’s foremost practitioners of the essay film presents a major new work inspired by the writings of Gilles Deleuze on cinema. Andersen 
Olivia’s Place
Director
1974-01-01
Olivia may have felt no need to change, but the world around her was not bound by such an impractical sentiment. Olivia’s Place is gone. The site wh…
— ——– (Rock and Roll Movie)
Director
1967-08-10
A documentary about rock ‘n’ roll. The Canned Heat, City Lights, Seeds of Time, LA Tymes, Llyn Foulkes, Charlie Watts, Chris & Craig, Duke of Earl…
Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams
Director
2015-06-01
Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself, Red Hollywood) reconsiders the films of Spencer Williams, the pioneering African American screenwriter, direc…
Melting
Director
1965-01-01
Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The sp…
Thom Andersen Production Movies
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Job
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Producer
2003-09-07
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen …
A Train Arrives at the Station
Producer
2016-01-07
“This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There was o…
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Writer
2003-09-07
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen …
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Writer
1975-09-28
Thom Andersen’s remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. …
Red Hollywood
Writer
1996-08-16
A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in t…
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Maurice
Thanks
2011-08-19
A short documentary portrait of Maurice Laroche, owner and projectionist of the ‘Beverley’, the last Porno Cinema in Paris….
Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams
Editor
2015-06-01
Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself, Red Hollywood) reconsiders the films of Spencer Williams, the pioneering African American screenwriter, direc…
A Train Arrives at the Station
Editor
2016-01-07
“This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There was o…
