David Byrne

A team of creatives get together to throw the safest possible dance party in the middle of the pandemic in NYC. Starring David Byrne, Christian...

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the...

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent...

Adrian Belew augments the band on this 50-minute performance from the Westfalenhalle, in Dortmund, Germany, on December 20th, 1980, for the Rockpop...

Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie...

Meet the match made in pop heaven, when the singer-songwriter and the 1960s hitmaking composer collaborated on the 1998 album Painted From Memory,...

Fatherhood has proved a great subject for a variety of artists - some celebratory, some conflicted, but all inspired by what dad does and doesn't do....

A look at "rock and roll" and other pop music based film of the 1970s.

Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he received...

The 1986 film version of the theatrical production "Dead End Kids" by the NYC avant-garde theatre group The Mabou Mines.

Interwoven with her storied career and prolific works, Twyla Moves sees legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp navigate her latest creative challenge:...

A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.

Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More...

An incredible retracing of the evolution of Reed's remarkable career over three decades. Filled with interviews with Reed, his friends and some of...

Talking Heads perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 9, 1982. Originally broadcast on Swiss TV and radio.

This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

"Fortified with a new band, and a bevy of fresh arrangements, Byrne sought to do more than debut virgin material at this show; he was out to recast...

A compilation of ten music videos produced by Talking Heads during the 1980s. The videos are linked by apparently real people (not actors) telling...

The making of a film about a bunch of people in Virgil, Texas.

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor"...

David Byrne is a visual artist as well as a musician, and ever since his early days as a member of Talking Heads, he's wanted his concerts to be more...

In 1984, David Byrne put together a TV special on the Talking Heads for U.K. TV’s Channel 4, a 68-minute mix of live material filmed at Wembley...

The life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary...

This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit "The Girl from Ipanema" to explore how samba, Brazilectro and...

Second MTV Unplugged album of Café Tacvba.

Tori Amos performs. Her set includes "iieee," "Past the Mission," "Caught a Lite Sneeze" and "The Waitress." Hosted by David Byrne.

The Pogues playing on St. Patrick's Day in London's Town and Country serves to remind fans why we loved the band and possibly why their breakup was...

Chronology pulls together live performances from across Talking Heads' career. It starts with their earliest days at CBGB and The Kitchen in New York...

Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson's early rise to fame.

550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only....

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno - known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient...

This show, captured on November 28, 2001, was hailed by critics as Byrne's best work in years, and his performance on the Austin City Limits stage...

In the summer of 2015, legendary musician David Byrne staged an event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to celebrate the art of Color Guard: synchronized...

The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie,...

On December 18, 1980, the American rock band Talking Heads, with guest guitarist Adrian Belew, delivered a fantastic performance at Palaeur Arena in...

Rare concert footage of Talking Heads performing during their legendary Remain in Light trek has been unearthed after 35 years. Filmed four years...

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and...

Wandering Heart intimately follows Caetano from São Paulo to New York and Japan, during the release of his first album recorded solely in...

MTV Unplugged is a 1993 live album by 10,000 Maniacs. The music was recorded for the MTV Unplugged series and it was also the last album by the band...

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...

With her band - Future Wife - and David Byrne, playwright Young Jean Lee takes the stage in a life-affirming show that anyone could perform, about...

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in...

John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches and special guests in a nostalgic variety...

From the poetic to the philosphical, the heartbreaking to the hilarious, Lubbock Lights explores the phenomenon that is West Texas music.

In this 1995 made-for television biopic, see legendary musician and filmmaker Ivan Kral as he made music history. With guitar and camera in the 70s,...

A brief history of Talking Heads (and how they got here!)

Fringe even in the fringe world of music of the 70's - Terry Allen is an artist in a class of his own. Everything For All Reasons introduces Terry's...

Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on...

A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global...

When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an...

French filmmakers Cedric Laty and Vincent Gerard chronicle the life of lensman William Eggleston, emerging with an artful documentary as much about...

SETLIST: 01. Here, 02. Lazy, 03. I Zimbra (Talking Heads song), 04. Slippery People (Talking Heads song), 05. Everybody’s Coming to My House,...

This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some...

Documentary about the life of Portuguese Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999) with an interview and collection of footage from performances...

A compelling story about Grammy-winning Venezuelan funksters Los Amigos Invisibles, from their early days playing in Caracas, Venezuela, to being...

If it were necessary to describe the history of independent rock music in Russia in one word, then this word would be Gorbushka. It is a password...

A documentary following musician and nurse Doug Hream Blunt on his first world tour.

"(Nothing But) Flowers" (Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) "And She Was" "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Frantz,...

A true crime concert doc about David Byrne and two escaped convicts.

Produced in collaboration with MICA-TV, Summer of Love is a public service announcement produced for the American Foundation for AIDS Research....

When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the...

New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, police, schools, and social services. There was a...

Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell....

Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and...

This half-hour documentary was screened on Channel 4 in 1989. Charlie Gillett is in conversation with David Byrne and Susan Young. Gillett explores...

The enlightened and extra-terrestrial Brazilian genius-multi-instrumentalist flies to Asturias in 2008 to give a music workshop. His journey takes us...

David Byrne of the band Talking Heads lip-syncs and sporadically dances to the 1980 single "Once In a Lifetime".

A 2002 live performance of Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, a multimedia opera set entirely on a television talk show in the late 20th century.