| Movie | 2005 | Punk: Attitude | Himself | |
| Movie | 1991 | Notebook | | |
| Movie | 1992 | 1991: The Year Punk Broke | Self | |
| Movie | 2004 | Kill Your Idols | Self | |
| Movie | 1999 | David S. Ware | Himself | |
| Movie | 2004 | Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost | | |
| Movie | 2001 | 25 Years of Punk | Self | |
| Movie | 2020 | Sonic Youth: From The Basement | self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over | Self | |
| Movie | 2000 | Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | I Need That Record! | Himself | |
| Movie | 1995 | Blood on the Beach | Self | |
| Movie | 2003 | Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003) | | |
| Movie | 2023 | Louder Than You Think | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2005 | Day Trip Maryanne | | |
| Movie | 2000 | Record Player: Christian Marclay | Himself | |
| Movie | 2006 | Cut Shorts | | |
| Movie | 2010 | Ecstatic Peace Archives | | |
| Movie | 2009 | No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | Kill Your Idols: More. | Himself | |
| Movie | 2007 | Llik Your Idols | Himself | |
| Movie | 1996 | Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996 | | |
| Movie | 2005 | Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes | | |
| Movie | 2024 | Scala!!! | Self | |
| Movie | 1989 | Weatherman '69 | Jeff Jones | |
| Movie | 1999 | Turn of the Century | Himself | |
| Movie | 2024 | Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story | | |
| Movie | 1995 | An Introduction to Harmolodics | | |
| Movie | 1986 | Death Valley '69 | | |
| Movie | 2007 | Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East | Himself | |
| Movie | 2012 | Ben Lee: Catch My Disease | Self | |
| Movie | 2025 | Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen | Himself | |
| Movie | 2009 | From the Basement | Self - Sonic Youth | |
| Movie | 2015 | Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | Cecil Taylor: All The Notes | Himself | |
| Movie | 2016 | Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape | Himself | |
| Movie | 2024 | The Road to Ruane | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | Don't Bring A Dog | Himself | |
| Movie | 1991 | Rap Damage | | |
| Movie | 1993 | Grunge Pedal | | |
| Movie | 1991 | Goo | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine | Self - Sonic Youth | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Hardcore Collection | (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1986 | Sublapse Video Mag 1 | | |
| Movie | 2007 | 365 Day Project | | |
| Movie | 2011 | Blank City | Self | |
| Movie | 1993 | Changing Fashions | | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Public Image Is Rotten | Himself | |
| Movie | 1994 | Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Teenage Superstars | Himself | |
| Movie | 2002 | Pavement: Slow Century | Self | |
| Movie | 2011 | Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline | Himself | |
| Movie | 2004 | (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale | Self | |
| Movie | 2013 | I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney | | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Devil and Daniel Johnston | Self | |
| Movie | 2007 | You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | Desolation Center | | |
| Movie | 2003 | Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage | Performer | |
| Movie | 1988 | Put More Blood Into the Music | Himself | |
| Movie | 2019 | Daydream Nation | | |
| Movie | 2019 | Swans: Where Does a Body End? | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond | | |
| Movie | 2010 | Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child | Self | |
| Movie | 1988 | Lou Believers | Himself | |
| Movie | 2019 | SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | Noise | Self | |
| Movie | N/A | Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985 | | |
| Movie | 2020 | Thick Air | Himself | |
| Movie | 2007 | Welcome to My Castle! | Self | |
| Movie | 1995 | The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. | himself | |
| Movie | 2021 | Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | The Sparks Brothers | Self | |
| Movie | 1986 | Submit to Me | | |
| Movie | 2008 | New York Rock at the BBC | Self - Sonic Youth | |
| Movie | 1991 | Skeeno H.C. Rules | | |
| Movie | 2011 | Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011 | | |
| Movie | 2000 | Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000 | | |
| Movie | 1998 | Free Tibet | Self - Sonic Youth | |
| Movie | 1995 | Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011 | | |
| Movie | 2025 | Pavements | Self (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1985 | Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree | | |
| Movie | 1998 | Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998 | | |
| Movie | 2002 | Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002 | | |
| TV Show | 2000 | Gilmore Girls | Cool Dad Troubadour | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast | Fred Cracklin | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Punk | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Classic Albums | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Hi Octane | Self (Host) | 4 |
