Arto Lindsay

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Arto Lindsay

Born May 28, 1953 · Richmond, Virginia, USA (age 73)

Arthur Morgan 'Arto' Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He first achieved recognition as part of New York no wave group DNA in the late 1970s. He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick as "studiedly naïve ... soundi…

Known For

Desperately Seeking SusanDesperately Seeking Susan · 1985
Desperately Seeking Susan
6.11985
MovieComedyCrime
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
Down by LawDown by Law · 1986
Down by Law
7.41986
MovieCrimeDrama
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Candy MountainCandy Mountain · 1988
Candy Mountain
6.11988
MovieMusicDrama
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.
CookieCookie · 1989
Cookie
5.61989
MovieComedyCrime
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter.
Kiss Daddy GoodnightKiss Daddy Goodnight · 1987
Kiss Daddy Goodnight
5.21987
MovieDramaMystery
At night, baby-face Laura dresses up as a vamp and lets random guys at bars pick her up, just to drug and rob them later. But then someone starts stalking her, and a person close to her is killed.
Death By Unnatural CausesDeath By Unnatural Causes · 1991
Death By Unnatural Causes
1991
Movie
A visceral homage to those living and dying under the shadow of AIDS in a world run amok.
Letters to DadLetters to Dad · 1979
Letters to Dad
8.01979
Movie
The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer
Dream GenerationDream Generation · 2003
Dream Generation
6.72003
MovieDocumentaryMusic
Francesca, Morgana, Edo and Antonio. Four of today’s youngsters. Four inadvertent representatives of today’s generation of 20-year-olds who “do whatever I want”.By chance they find that they’re spending a week in Catania together, the Baroque city perched on the slopes of a volcano, the continual rumbling of which seems to reflect their restlessness…

Filmography

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OK Today TomorrowOK Today Tomorrow · 1983
OK Today Tomorrow
1983
Movie
Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began making Super8 films in New York that stripped away the stylistic markers of Hollywood, New Wave cinema of the 1960s and ’70s, and classic avant-garde film, leaving only traces of their generic conventions. For the first hour of OK Today Tomorrow, he stages a series of fraught encounters around the city between four gentrified New Yorkers before abandoning his vague narrative of youthful angst altogether in favor of documenting the urban landscape itself. The dusk-to-dawn “city symphony” that ends the film resembles similar Super8 social studies by Vogl’s uptown contemporary John Ahearn; both recorded the daily lives of working-class black and immigrant communities on the streets of a city on the verge of the corporate takeover and sweeping gentrification that followed in the 1980s and ’90s. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.