Steve Shelley Movies

Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this...

This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous...

A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full with a bonus encore of Rather Ripped songs at the ABC in Glasgow in 2007.

Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals.

While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion...

Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.

Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...

The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the...

June 16, 1996 Golden Gate Park San Francisco

Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November 1985 in Brighton, UK.

The second last show on Sonic Youth's sad final stanza, a festival tour of South America that eventually took them to Chile for the Maquinaria...

As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural...

Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.