Movies: Spalding Gray

  • 1974
    Prisoner's Dilemma

    Prisoner's Dilemma (1974)

    Prisoner's Dilemma

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    A two-part tape of a video performance done on January 22, 1974, at 112 Greene Street (as part of the Video Performance Exhibition), structured on a problem in game theory, a non-zero-sum game, in which both players can win or lose at the same time, ...

    Prisoner's Dilemma
  • 1986
    What You Mean We?

    What You Mean We? (1986)

    What You Mean We?

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    WHAT YOU MEAN WE is a surreal short film by experimental artist Laurie Anderson....

    What You Mean We?
  • 1982
    A Personal History of the American Theater

    A Personal History of the American Theater (1982)

    A Personal History of the American Theater

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    An autobiographical monologue in which Spalding Gray randomly draws cards for titles of the plays in which he performed in the 1960s. He proceeds to tell stories that came out of the experiences with each play....

    A Personal History of the American Theater
  • 1981
    Anybody's Woman

    Anybody's Woman (1981)

    Anybody's Woman

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    The goings-on around a porn theater in New York’s East Village, interspersed with actors recounting experiences with extreme sexualities and a description of a scene from the pre-code Dorothy Arzner film of the same name....

    Anybody's Woman
  • 2014
    Rumstick Road

    Rumstick Road (2014)

    Rumstick Road

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    A video reconstruction of the 1977 Wooster Group production Rumstick Road, an experimental theater performance created by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte after the suicide of Gray's mother. Archival recordings are combined with photographs, slid...

    Rumstick Road
  • 1982
    Sex and Death to the Age 14

    Sex and Death to the Age 14 (1982)

    Sex and Death to the Age 14

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    Monologue created and performed by Spalding Gray, who takes us through his childhood recollections of growing up in a Christian Science household in Barrington, Rhode Island, in the 1950s....

    Sex and Death to the Age 14
  • 1984
    Double Lunar Dogs

    Double Lunar Dogs (1984)

    Double Lunar Dogs

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    Based on Robert Heinlein’s 1941 story “Universe,” Double Lunar Dogs presents a vision of post-apocalyptic survival aboard a “spacecraft,” travelling aimlessly through the universe, whose passengers have forgotten the purpose of their mission. As a me...

    Double Lunar Dogs
  • 1985
    Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress

    Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress (1985)

    Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress

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    Performance clips and biographical anecdotes from the life of Spalding Gray....

    Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress