“Blue” Gene Tyranny

“Blue” Gene Tyranny is associated with: By a Thread

Movies Made By “Blue” Gene Tyranny (5)

By a Thread (1992)

Television journalist Quentin Springer has two obsessions: first, he wants to help his schizophrenic nephew by making video recordings of his life; and second, he dreams of carrying out a "perfect crime". ...

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Endance (1988)

Endance is a witty take-off of a public television documentary. Choreographer Tim Buckley solemnly discusses his life, work, and decision to stop dancing, in a convinving narrative built on a false premise: the end of a dancer's career. ...

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Atalanta Strategy (1984)

The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts. ...

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Footsi (1979)

A comical exploration of the world by a tiny pair of fingers. ...

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Deathsport (1978)

1000 years into the future, after the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastelands and isolated city-states. Notorious "Desert Ranger" Kaz is forced to fight in the DeathSport, dueling on futuristic motorcycle "Death Machines". With the ...

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Movies Starring “Blue” Gene Tyranny (4)

Just For The Record: Conversations With And About "Blue" Gene Tyranny (2020)

Just For the Record locates San Antonio, Ann Arbor, Oakland, and New York City as locations where Tyranny's compositions and collaborations developed. Filmmaker David Bernabo takes a deep dive on the recently reissued Out of the Blue and the long lost Trus ...

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Perfect Lives (1984)

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is "about" bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been cal ...

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Four American Composers: Robert Ashley (1983)

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway. ...

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Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons (1981)

Buried inside the epic American opera for television, "Perfect Lives" are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented people in the middle of America. This pilot for the series is an abstraction that plays on the meaning of life (which is u ...

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