Director
Thom Andersen
Chicago, Illinois · 16 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 16
The House, The True One and The One That Follows, Is Yet to Be Built
2019 · Voice-Over
California Here I Come
2017 · Director
A Train Arrives at the Station
2016 · Director, Editor
Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams
2015 · Director, Editor
The Thoughts That Once We Had
2015 · Director
The Tony Longo Trilogy
2014 · Director, Producer
Reconversion
2012 · Director
On DocAlliance Films
Twenty Cigarettes
2011 · Self
Get Out of the Car
2010 · Director
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Red Hollywood
1996 · Director, Writer
On OVID
Class Relations
1984 · Actor
On Fandor
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
1975 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Olivia's Place
1974 · Director
--- -------- (Rock and Roll Movie)
1967 · Director
Melting
1965 · Director