
Thom Andersen
Biography
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.
Acting (3 movies)
Directing (15 movies)

Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
1975

Get Out of the Car
2010

Reconversion
2012

Red Hollywood
1996

The Tony Longo Trilogy
2014

The Thoughts That Once We Had
2015

Olivia's Place
1974

--- -------- (Rock and Roll Movie)
1967
Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams
2015
California Sun
2015

Melting
1965
A Train Arrives at the Station
2016
Act Without Words
1964

California Here I Come
2017
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer | 1975 | Writer | 
| Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer | 1975 | Producer | 
| Red Hollywood | 1996 | Writer | 
| Los Angeles Plays Itself | 2004 | Writer | 
| Los Angeles Plays Itself | 2004 | Producer | 
| A Train Arrives at the Station | 2016 | Producer | 


