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  • Arrival La Barbara's music from her work "Erin" is featured in the filmscore by Johann Johannsson for the feature film, released in theaters November 2016.

  • Alien: Resurrection created and performed the "Newborn Vocals" (Sound Designer Leslie Shatz; Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet; release date: November 26, 1997). Watch Excerpt

  • I Still Know What You Did Last Summer vocal soloist on the musical soundscore (Composer John Frizzell; Director Danny Cannon; release date: November 13, 1998)

  • Date with an Angel La Barbara created and performed the "Angel Voice" for actress Emmannuelle Béart, replacing her voice for the entire feature film (Sound Designer Dane Davis; Director Tom McLoughlin; released November 1987)

  • Anima (Elizabeth Harris Productions) filmscore composed by Joan La Barbara

  • Immersion; (Jodi Kaplan, filmmaker; shown at the 1999 "New Directors/New Films" Festival at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York) with music by Joan La Barbara

    Signing Alphabet (animated film by Steve Finkin, broadcast on Sesame Street/Children’s Television workshop worldwide since 1977) with music composed and performed by Joan La Barbara Watch the Video

  • Endless Songs/Textures through Time (video by Susanna Carlisle, choreography by Mary Anne Santos Newhall, Music composed and performed by Joan La Barbara ©2002)

  • Tango Two (video by Susanna Carlisle, story by Melody Sumner Carnahan, music composed and performed by Joan La Barbara ©2002)

  • Voice Windows/Vocalization One (video by Steina, interactive interface and mapping by Woody Vasulka, music composed and performed by Joan La Barbara ©1987)

  • Devil’s Book (animated film by Steven Subotnick) with music composed and performed by Joan La Barbara

  • Roost (animated film by Amy Kravitz) with music composed and performed by Joan La Barbara

  • Tending Echo Park (film by Monica Gazzo) with music composed and performed by Joan La Barbara and music for numerous independent films by Richard Blau, Monica Gazzo, Amy Kravitz, Elyse Rosenberg, Steven Subotnick and others.

  • Triptych: Buffalo & Maine, a film by Harvey Wang, shown in the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, featuring music from La Barbara's "ShamanSong"

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  • JLB as "Nanna", a woman who "coos" like a pigeon in "Birds of a Feather"
    Written and directed by Gabriel Flaksman




  • JLB as "Liza", an embittered former dancer, in "Lots of People"
    Written and directed by Emily Keslar

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