Laurie Anderson will receive valuable recognition from Locarno for her work. Photo: EFE.
The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to American music, performance artist and filmmaker Laurie Anderson with its Lifetime Achievement Award dedicated to creative pioneers.
The leading Swiss festival dedicated to international independent cinema will honor Anderson with his Vision Award Ticinomoda and will release his two feature films, dog heart (2015) dedicated to Lou Reed, and the restored 4K version of Home of the Braves (1986).
Laurie Anderson in New York, 2008.
Anderson will receive the award on Aug. 10 at a ceremony in Locarno’s Piazza Grande followed by a conversation on stage on August 11th.
The notice
Locarno praised in a statement Anderson as “an artist whose career marked creativity and experimentation”, stressing that he had become a leading figure in the American avant-garde since the 1970s.
Laurie Anderson and her famous violin.
“Anderson spent five decades exploring the potential of multimedia and innovative technology in the arts, through collaborations with William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Wim Wenders, Peter Gabriel, Jean-Michel Jarre and Lou Reed, her late great husband, among many others, “the festival noted.
a unique path
Laurie Anderson in front of the Hudson River in New York.
Born in Glenn Ellyn, Illinois, in 1947, Anderson trained in both music and sculpture and exploded on the American avant-garde scene in 1070. His recording career began to gain momentum in 1981 with the release of the single Or Supermanfollowed by albums such as Great Science (1982), Life on a String (2001) and Homeland (2010) ..
His album in 1986 Home of the Braves is the soundtrack to their concert photo of the same title.
In 2002, Anderson was named NASA’s first artist-in-residence, an experience that culminated in his single tour “The End of the Moon”.
His latest work
Laurie Anderson in Buenos Aires, 2008. Photo Fabián Urquiza.
The movie dog heart premiered in 2015 at the Venice Film Festival where it was praised by Variety as “both a demonstration and a critique of the art of storytelling, that is, the art of interpreting the random effluvia of everyday life, in way they can both. deceive and shine. “
In 2018, Anderson and the Kronos Quartet released the album Landfallinspired by Hurricane Sandy, that is won a Grammy Award. His visual art is displayed in major museums around the world.
“Laurie Anderson in Locarno is a dream come true,” said festival artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro, who called her “a multilayered personality that deep and unbridled creativity has followed countless innovative paths in music, performance, film, theater and electronics. , poetry and all its various forms of practice. “
The 75th edition of the Locarno festival will take place from August 4 to 14.
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