Thurston Moore
Know for: Acting
Born: 1958-07-25
Place of birth: Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Also know as:
Punk: Attitude (2005)
A documentary on the music, performers, attitude and distinctive look that made up punk rock.
Notebook (1991)
Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.
1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992)
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live...
Kill Your Idols (2004)
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current...
David S. Ware (1999)
A documentary about saxophonist David S. Ware.
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (2004)
A compilation of 24 music videos by Sonic Youth ranging from 1990 to 2002. Collaborators include Harmony Korine, Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes, Mark...
25 Years of Punk (2001)
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground...
Sonic Youth: From The Basement (2020)
Enjoy Sonic Youth’s full From The Basement set! Track listing: 01:26 - The Sprawl 10:45 - Incinerate 16:15 - Hey Joni 20:42 - Jams Run...
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019)
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City's...
Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth (2000)
This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous...
I Need That Record! (2008)
Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a...
Blood on the Beach (1995)
Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November 1985 in Brighton, UK.
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003) (2003)
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...
Louder Than You Think (2023)
Gary Young, drummer for indie-rock icons Pavement, injected a wild-card unpredictability into the band's breakthrough, lo-fi sound. But those same...
Day Trip Maryanne (2005)
Day Trip Maryanne captures the collaboration between legendary sound sculptor Maryanne Amacher and guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at her...
Record Player: Christian Marclay (2000)
Christian demonstrates some techniques and preparations and meditates on the turntable, improvisation, and the difference between the sonic and the...
Cut Shorts (2006)
A collection of short films and music videos from independent filmmaker David Markey, from 1974 to 2004.
Ecstatic Peace Archives (2010)
Lance Bangs interviews Thurston Moore about the Ecstatic Peace Archives.
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York (2009)
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia...
Kill Your Idols: More. (2006)
A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS.
Llik Your Idols (2007)
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996 (1996)
Live at Rocknacht, Germany 1996. Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from NewYork City, formed in 1981. In their early career, Sonic...
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes (2005)
Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals.
Scala!!! (2024)
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which...
Weatherman '69 (1989)
Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself,...
Turn of the Century (1999)
Filmmaker, illustrator and musician Dame Darcy's weekly television collaboration with Blessed Elysium's Lisa Hammer aired on New York's Public Access...
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story (2024)
Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, Redd Kross are the ultimate rock and roll lifers....
An Introduction to Harmolodics (1995)
Ornette Coleman is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?” Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of...
Death Valley '69 (1986)
Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment...
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East (2007)
Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur Jr. onstage, playing the songs "Gargoyle," "Little...
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease (2012)
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone...
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt (2025)
Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)
A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise...
From The Basement (2009)
First DVD release from this refreshingly basic UK music programme puts the music in the foreground with an impressive role call of acts. With sparse...
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) (2015)
"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal...
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes (2005)
Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern...
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape (2016)
Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won't die. Rock veterans join a legion of young bands releasing...
The Road to Ruane (2024)
Billy Ruane, storied impresario of the 90s Boston indie music scene. Billy promoted shows and inspired cult-like followings of bands by the likes of...
Don't Bring A Dog (1997)
Don't Bring A Dog shows a part of the New York underground music scene - rooted in the early eighties - existing apart from MTV and billboard charts....
Rap Damage (1991)
Thurston on a bender. Shot one day during a break on the Ragged Glory Tour. Hip Hopped-up NYC roadie Maurice Menares plays the psychotic...
Grunge Pedal (1993)
Starring Vehicle for Free Kitten. Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz, & Mark Ibold lounge on suburban lawns, jamming a guitar effects box & Japanese beat...
Goo (1991)
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track...
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine (2019)
Explores the seminal music magazine from its 1969 launch in Detroit to the untimely death of its publisher Barry Kramer in 1981.
The Hardcore Collection (2012)
This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley...
Sublapse Video Mag 1 (1986)
Video Fanzine featuring: Half Japanese, Redd Kross with Sky Saxon as Purple Electricity, R Kern, Sonic Youth, White Flag, Psycho Daisies, Charlie...
365 Day Project (2007)
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
Blank City (2011)
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...
Changing Fashions (1993)
Anthony Kiedis and Sofia Coppola try to escape the fashion influence of Debbie Harry.
The Public Image Is Rotten (2017)
British rock icon John Lydon and fellow bandmates recall the years they spent performing as Public Image Ltd.
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos (1994)
Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the 90's. Interviews many famous musicians and other...
Teenage Superstars (2017)
Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish...
Pavement: Slow Century (2002)
Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance in late 1999.
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (2011)
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula....
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline (2014)
Dandelion Records and DVD's present Probably the nearest you will ever get to an official documentary on Mark E Smith and The Fall. Put together over...
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale (2004)
While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion...
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney (2013)
This documentary tells the story of Mudhoney from their very beginnings, to following them on their recent world tour and everything in between....
Sonic Youth - Goo (1991)
Promotional music video collection
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006)
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the...
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson (2007)
Documentary about rock pioneer Roky Erickson, detailing his rise as a psychedelic hero, his lengthy institutionalization, his descent into poverty...
Desolation Center (2018)
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the...
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage (2003)
Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this...
Put More Blood Into the Music (1988)
PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...
Daydream Nation (2019)
A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.
Swans: Where Does a Body End? (2019)
From their roots as a brutal, confrontational industrial band, through breakups and chaos, to their odds-defying current status as one of the most...
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB (2009)
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in...
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond (2019)
As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)
A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive...
Lou Believers (1988)
Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Lou Reed roam the streets of Los Angeles searching for James Woods.
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions (2019)
A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.
Noise (2006)
Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985 (1970)
A video documenting Sonic Youth's performance at the Gila Monster Jamboree. Taking place in a remote location in the Mojave Desert, this was the...
Thick Air (2020)
An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to...
Welcome to My Castle! (2007)
Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ron Jeremy, and many more. Includes videos of...
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special (1995)
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. (2021)
The American indie rock band “Dinosaur Jr.” is a radical group with an unmistakeable sound. The film tells the story the three...
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021)
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate...
The Sparks Brothers (2021)
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your...
New York Rock at the BBC (2008)
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and...
Submit to Me (1986)
Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director...
Skeeno H.C. Rules (1991)
Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, &...
Pavements (2024)
Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed...
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011 (2011)
The final Sonic Youth concert
Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000 (2000)
The band performs at the Free Jazz Festival
Free Tibet (1998)
A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (1995)
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times is a documentary about the life of Brian Wilson, the musical mastermind and songwriter for the Beach Boys. The...
2020 (2021)
A film for 2020, a year to remember. 2020 different colors create a flicker film.
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
Black Lodge (2022)
Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest...
Goo (1991)
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track...
Submit to Me Now (1987)
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to...
Goo (1991)
In 1991, a long-form music video version of Goo was released on VHS and LaserDisc. A music video for each song from the album was included; the track...
Made in U.S.A. (1987)
Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal...
Things Behind the Sun (2001)
A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling...
Demonlover (2002)
A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power...
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
Extra Action (2007)
Photographer Richard Kern asks his models to "roll around and do something interesting for a few minutes". Extra Action documents 60 of these...
Fire Music (2021)
Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman,...
I Was Jack Goldstein (2010)
A short film made of still images from a series of site specific performances about the artist Jack Goldstein.
Heavy (1995)
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy roadside restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a...
Street (2011)
STREET is an unscripted 61-minute high definition video filmed by artist James Nares over one week in September 2011. The final video is a...
Clean (2011)
Clean is an experimental short film by NY filmmaker Richard Kern.
Rock My Religion (1984)
Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that...
1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992)
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live...