Philip Glass

Anhedonia (2024)

An incoherent film diary. ...

The Pigeon Tunnel (2023)

Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré. ...

Once Within a Time (2023)

Once Within a Time is an anarchic comedy told without words, a sensory feast to be felt through art and music. This multidisciplinary work shows us life on Earth as humanity clashes with the five fundamental elements—earth, air, water, fire, and money— ...

You, Me, and Movies (2023)

Filmmaker Nathan Kornick uses interviews with his friend, Chris Shields, and confessional footage to reflect on the power of movies to help us better understand ourselves and each other. ...

An Unwillingness (2022)

A visualisation of my multimedia poem for Year 11 English Advanced. I had to write the poem based around my chosen quote from a Gwen Harwood poem. I chose "Dreams drip to stone" from Oyster Cove (1971). The story follows a middle-aged woman who regrets the ...

LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE (2021)

Letters from a distance documents a communication exercise thought out by healthcare workers from a public hospital in Mexico City to help with the distance between COVID-19 patients and their family members through letters, that eventually turn into video ...

War and the Weather (2021)

Artist Enid Baxter Ryce created an experimental documentary with a musical score by Philip Glass to portray, in moving images, the history of "atmospheric rivers," or streams of water vapor in the sky. Just like rivers that move water around on the land, ...

In the Penal Colony (2021)

Based on a story by Franz Kafka, this Philip Glass opera is set at the turn of the 20th century on a remote island where a high-ranking visitor arrives to witness the use of a strange machine in the execution of a prisoner. It is a parable for the conseque ...

Philip Glass: Akhnaten (2020)

Akhnaten is set in Ancient Egypt, and based on the accession to the throne of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV – thought to have been around 1351BC – on his religious convictions, and the consequences of his actions. Presented as a combination of song, dance a ...

Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective (2020)

Watch Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble perform at the Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur. An evening of Glass's seminal works composed specifically for the ensemble -- the principal performers of his work since 1968--featuring Music in Similar M ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten (2019)

Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait opera trilogy about personalities who have influenced the course of human history. The conclusion of the trilogy deals with the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ak ...

Universal Machine (2019)

Universal Machine is a meditation on the ultimate fate of humanity's relationship with technology. Featuring music by Philip Glass, the film follows a gifted young woman who awakens into a post-apocalyptic world and must transcend a violent confrontation w ...

Samurai Marathon (2019)

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race. ...

Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2 (2018)

Jerome Robbins considered the Paris Opera Ballet as his second home after the New York City Ballet. This production in his honour brings together works displaying the infinite diversity of his sources of inspiration and his genius on stage. Be it in the en ...

Taniel (2018)

"Taniel" looks at the last months of poet Taniel Varoujan's life, who was murdered in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The film's narrative is heard in poetry and seen through Film Noir images. ...

Jane (2017)

Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives, director Brett Morgen tells the story of Jane Goodall, a woman whose chimpanzee research revolutionized our understanding of the natural world. ...

The Juniper Tree (2017)

This take on the famously dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale tells of a Wicked Stepmother who murders her stepson and serves him up in a stew to his unsuspecting father. The boy's sister buries her brother's bones under a nearby Juniper Tree, and the child's s ...

The Last Dalai Lama? (2017)

In his 1992 documentary "Compassion in Exile", filmmaker Mickey Lemle created a groundbreaking portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama. His new film takes a fresh look at what is important for His Holiness, who is now in his 80s: the historic confrontation between ...

Crônica da Demolição (2017)

At the heart of Rio de Janeiro's downtown, an empty square with a dry fountain and an underground parking. There was located the Monroe Palace, that once housed the Senate, and was mysteriously demolished forty years ago. A history of sabers and lions, mil ...

Glass - Double Concerto for Two Pianos (2016)

As part of a new collaboration with the famous composer Philip Glass, French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque perform the European premiere of Glass's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Orchester de Paris. ...

Fantastic Four (2015)

Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turn ...

Leviathan (2014)

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family. ...

Einstein on the Beach (2014)

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du C ...

November 22, 1963 (2013)

Josiah "Tink" Thompson discusses the Kennedy assassination, the nature of truth and photographic evidence in this short film from director Errol Morris. ...

Glass: The Perfect American (2013)

The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first performances in Madrid in January 2013. ...

Visitors (2013)

From the director of KOYAANISQATSI, an astonishing film that documents the drama of how we both live and witness what we experience. Shot in rich black and white Godfrey Reggio's latest film finds the full spectrum of emotion in human faces, gorgeous lands ...

Re: Awakenings (2013)

Original Super 8 footage shot by Dr. Oliver Sacks of his patients at Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx, NY, who were administered the drug L-Dopa in the summer of 1969 and "awakened" after decades of inactivity is featured in this cine-poem that combines archiv ...

The Apostle (2012)

A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from. ...

Besa: The Promise (2012)

A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII at their own risk, and trying to help the son of an Albanian baker that housed a Jewish family for a year return some Hebrew books that the fami ...

Lucinda Childs' Dance (2011)

A documentary about the American postmodern dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs. For Dance, a choreography from '79 set to the music of Philip Glass in film/decor of Sol Lewitt, Lucinda received a Guggenheim Fellowship. This masterpiece is the leitmot ...

Philip Glass: Satyagraha (2011)

Following the success of his first foray into opera, Einstein on the Beach, revolutionary American composer and musician Philip Glass soon turned to another great figure of the 20th century for inspiration. Set to lines from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, Satyag ...

Elena (2011)

After suffering from a heart attack, a wealthy elderly Russian man plans to will most of his estate to his estranged daughter, but his titular wife has other plans. ...

They Were There (2011)

What does it mean to be an IBMer? Every employee experiences the company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and society over the last 100 years gives us all a common framework. "They Were There" is told by first-hand witnesse ...

Glass: Kepler (2011)

Live performance of Philip Glass's opera Kepler (2009) by the Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theater in 2011, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. ...

Mr. Nice (2010)

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same titl ...

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey (2010)

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). ...

Trans-Action (2010)

Trans-Action tells the story of an extraordinary woman. Anna Grodzka who in 2011 became the first transgender person in the Polish government, and the third transgender member of government in world history, was born in the male body and decided to finally ...

These Vagabond Shoes (2009)

A man travels across New York City to get a Nathan's Famous hot dog. ...

Objects and Memory (2008)

Using stories of items recovered or offered after 9/11 and other tragedies, this film explores the human impulse to create community and reestablish connection in times of upheaval. ...

The Song (2008)

The film is based on the cycle of graphic works of the famous Lithuanian artist Stasys Krasauskas "Birth of a Woman" and is dedicated to the memory of Stasys Krasauskas. ...

Animals in Love (2007)

Translated literally as "Animals in Love," the French-language documentary Animaux Amoreux depicts various species of the animal kingdom in courting, mating and reproduction activities. Laurent Charbonnier directs. ...

Cassandra's Dream (2007)

The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies. ...

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2007)

Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese. ...

Hard-Hearted (2007)

A provincial war vet arrives in Moscow and subsequently takes on a gang of bad cops. ...

No Reservations (2007)

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staf ...

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship. ...

The Illusionist (2006)

With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector. ...

Roving Mars (2006)

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet. ...

Un leader in ascolto (2006)

The documentary traces the life of Luciano Lama, one of the major protagonists of Italian trade union history. From the years of the Resistance to those in which he was mayor of Amelia, a small Umbrian village. From the years alongside the " 'his teacher ...

Neverwas (2005)

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, ...

The Giant Buddhas (2005)

Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared that all non-Islamic statues in the country be destroyed. De ...

The Moustache (2005)

One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never ha ...

Undertow (2004)

The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man. ...

The Origins of AIDS (2004)

While AIDS may be one of the most feared diseases of modern times, there is still a degree of scientific debate over the subject of just how the disease originated, and how the first cases spread. Two filmmakers explore a controversial theory about the beg ...

Taking Lives (2004)

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum em ...

Secret Window (2004)

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he be ...

The Fog of War (2003)

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vi ...

Wildfire (2003)

Female dancers "clothed" in electronically generated flaming colors reincarnate Thomas Edison's 1894 hand-tinted film "Annabelle Dances". ...

The Hours (2002)

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment o ...

Essence of Life (2002)

Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass talk about their 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi. ...

Naqoyqatsi (2002)

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence. ...

The Baroness and the Pig (2002)

A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon. ...

The Man in the Bath (2001)

An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway. ...

The Eden Myth (1999)

Can you keep a family secret? Prepare to enter the dark and funny world of the Speck family. Ruled by gray-haired patriarch Vincent Speck, they appear to be your average upper-class American family as they gather together for the weekend. Siblings snipe at ...

Pointy Teeth for Pointy People (1999)

A cousin stays overnight at a couple's place as both of her parents are missing. The husband suspects that she is a vampire as he keeps seeing corpses and her biting into them in his nightmares. Suddenly he becomes a vampire and hell breaks loose and must ...

The Source (1999)

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chroni ...

The Truman Show (1998)

In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show. ...

Kundun (1997)

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1 ...

Bent (1997)

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human ...

Perfect Moment (1997)

In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and Indian activist Russell Means, talk about religion, while composer Philip Glass and film-producer Irwin Winkler ...

Mama General (1997)

A film about poverty in a rich country: father, mother, seven children have made it out of the homeless asylum. The author met the Cologne family B. for the first time in 1976. Living with debts, installments, reminders, living with the certainty that the ...

The Secret Agent (1996)

In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So ...

Evidence (1995)

A haunting look at children watching television. ...

The Interview (1995)

Henry Czerny plays American journalist Michael Coleman, a strung-out expatriate writing for a Brazilian newspaper. His professional obsession is Father Stephen Louis, a mildly popular and charismatic priest who has been the major political opponent of the ...

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)

Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them. ...

La mort de Molière (1994)

A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by Müller himself. "Cinema watches Death at work." Wilson's actors watch Molière die: their vigil is hard work. Müller's ...

Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama (1993)

A portrait of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, which includes historical footage of China's repression of Tibetan Buddhism in 1959. ...

Sara (1993)

Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is reve ...

Candyman (1992)

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth. ...

Mirror of the Planet (1992)

Jytte Rex' sixth feature explores the here and now, the once and future beyond, Death and Eros, and proof of God's existence to be found in the Black Holes in a universe of nothingness. Tangible human individuals like Adam, an astronome, and two small chil ...

A Walk Through Prospero's Library (1992)

A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'. As Prospero (John Gielgud) walks through his library, Greenaway comments on the historical, mythological, biblical & ...

Mindwalk (1991)

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day. ...

A Brief History of Time (1991)

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories but the man himse ...

Anima Mundi (1991)

Image and music are intertwined in this third collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. The film was produced to celebrate the World Wildlife Fund's Biological Diversity Campaign. The film combines images of nature with pulsi ...

Closet Land (1991)

A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police ...

The Church (1989)

In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance. ...

Continuum: Parts 1 & 2 (1989)

Abstract video art with music composed by Philip Glass. Music by the Kronos String Quartet. ...

Continuum: 1. Initiation (1989)

Part one of the two part abstract video art-piece, with music composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos String Quartet. ...

The Thin Blue Line (1988)

This unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas. ...

Powaqqatsi (1988)

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them. ...

Monolithe (1987)

Hamburger Hill (1987)

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, the ...

The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July (1986)

Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the program, which was produced for the Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman a ...

In the Upper Room (1986)

In the Upper Room is a dance/theater collaboration between choreographer Twyla Tharp and composer Philip Glass. In the Upper Room from 1986, with music by Phillip Glass, choreography by Twyla Tharp. It's really impossible to convey in words just how brill ...

A Perfect Couple (1986)

One night in Gotham one couple ends their relationship, then another, and another. ...

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970. ...

Empire City (1985)

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on ...

ACT III (1983)

Abstract video art set to the music of Philip Glass. ...

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the e ...

Philip Glass: Satyagraha (1983)

This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a political revolutionary tool to fight oppression, connecting his lifework to three historical figures who advanc ...

Vivre est une solution (1980)

Surroundings of the Canal Saint-Martin's in Paris, a popular district where modernization is just about to begin. ...

Geometry of Circles (1980)

A short animated film consisting of the movement of six circles (each with a different colour of the rainbow) that are formed by and split up into various geometric patterns. ...

North Star: Mark di Suvero (1978)

North Star: Mark di Suvero is a 1977 documentary film about Mark di Suvero that was produced by François de Menil and Barbara Rose. Born in 1933, di Suvero has become one of the most recognized sculptors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. From abo ...

Carolyn I (1977)

The first part of the Carolyn Carlson cycle. Between her and herself. Three images of the dance are repeated, come up against opacities that do not let themselves be crossed, are lost in transparencies from which there is no reflection. The sound describes ...

Anxious Automation (1971)

Soundtrack by Philip Glass ...

End of the Art World (1971)

This is the debut documentary made by Alexis Krasilovsky, author of "Women Behind The Camera" (Praeger, 1997). Shot on 16mm in 1971, the film covers much of the New York avant-garde of the time. ...

Marco (1970)

Disbelief, shock, hostility and superstition confronted the wife of one of the filmmakers when she decided to give birth without pain medication using the Lamaze method of childbirth. Her tale is about trusting oneself and accepting responsibility even whe ...

Isy Boukir (1970)

Nancy Graves statement, 1971: "Izy Boukir contains footage filmed in the Sahara during eighteen days. I wanted to extend sequences [from earlier films] and to a greater degree permit the animal motions to determine structure. An Arriflex [camera] was ofte ...

Inquiring Nuns (1968)

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy? ...

Railroaded (1968)

An absurdist comedy short directed and produced by Harrison Engle. Features one of the first film scores by Philip Glass. ...

Chappaqua (1966)

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black- ...

A Place Called Music (2022)

The musical journey between Mexican Wixárika musician Daniel Medina and American composer Philip Glass. ...

Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious (2022)

We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears when Robert "Bob" Wilson puts minimalistic petrol pumps into a production of Shakespeare's sonnets? Why doe ...

War and the Weather (2021)

Artist Enid Baxter Ryce created an experimental documentary with a musical score by Philip Glass to portray, in moving images, the history of "atmospheric rivers," or streams of water vapor in the sky. Just like rivers that move water around on the land, ...

The Last Dalai Lama? (2017)

In his 1992 documentary "Compassion in Exile", filmmaker Mickey Lemle created a groundbreaking portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama. His new film takes a fresh look at what is important for His Holiness, who is now in his 80s: the historic confrontation between ...

Trophy (2017)

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities. ...

The Viking of Sixth Avenue (2015)

A documentary about the colorful life, times and music of a true original, Louis "Moondog" Hardin, an eccentric blind musician and composer who had far-reaching artistic influence in spite of a deliberate decision to live on the streets of New York City. ...

What Difference Does It Make? (2014)

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring. ...

Paul Simon: Under African Skies (2012)

Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime. On the ...

Lucinda Childs' Dance (2011)

A documentary about the American postmodern dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs. For Dance, a choreography from '79 set to the music of Philip Glass in film/decor of Sol Lewitt, Lucinda received a Guggenheim Fellowship. This masterpiece is the leitmot ...

Music (2010)

The story of music and the music industry told through interviews with musicians, composers and producers across genres. ...

Richard Serra: Man of Steel (2008)

Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel sculptures that both terrify and mesmerise, Serra believes that each viewer creates the sculpture for themselve ...

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008)

Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his death in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent pos ...

Making Mishima (2008)

In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and composer Philip Glass discuss the conception of Paul Schrader's film, the image of Mishima that they had prior to committing to the project, the manner in whic ...

Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)

An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself. ...

365 Day Project (2007)

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas' 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were ...

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2007)

Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese. ...

The Harry Smith Project Live (2006)

Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles celebrated the eccentric collector genius and his influential Anthology of American Folk Music. Instrumental in inspiring the urban folk revival of the 1960s, the Anthology's co ...

Kiki and Herb Reloaded (2005)

The outrageous drag-cabaret duo Kiki and Herb share their past, present and future as they tour the UK. A mixture of live performance and celebrity interviews (featuring Rufus Wainwright and the Scissor Sisters) that reflect on Kiki and Herb's musical infl ...

The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter (2005)

Tells the story of David Secter, Canada's first acclaimed indie filmmaker. ...

Philip Glass: Looking Glass (2005)

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks about his beginnings, his moving to Paris for two years o ...

Essence of Life (2002)

Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass talk about their 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi. ...

Impact of Progress (2002)

Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass discuss their films "Powaqqatsi" (1988) and "Naqoyqatsi" (2002). ...

The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch (2002)

A documentary about avant-garde composer Harry Partch. ...

In the Ocean (2001)

A brief overview and focus on composers Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John Cage, Steve Reich, Elliott Carter and their contemporaries. ...

A Brief History of Errol Morris (1999)

This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema history. This comprehensive overview of Morris' career includes clips of all his important films as well as interv ...

The Source (1999)

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chroni ...

The Truman Show (1998)

In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show. ...

Perfect Moment (1997)

In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and Indian activist Russell Means, talk about religion, while composer Philip Glass and film-producer Irwin Winkler ...

Classic Albums: Paul Simon - Graceland (1997)

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon had been on the cutting-edge of pop music throughout most of the 1960s and the '70s, first as half of the seminal folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, and then as a well-received solo artist. But the rise of 1980s rock and new wave ...

John Cage: Man and Myth (1990)

An experimental documentary that looks at its subject John Cage through the eyes of contemporary Avante-Garde artists as well as those who play his music. ...

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987)

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson's ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational opera for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Filmmaker Howard Brookner follows the avant-garde theatre director as he con ...

A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera (1986)

This documentary by Michael Blackwood looks at the development and production of Glass' opera Akhnaten. The film follows two productions by the Württemberg State Theater, Stuttgart, and the Houston Grand Opera. ...

Bye Bye Kipling (1986)

This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and performances and works by Philip Glass and the Kodo Drummers, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Lou Reed. ...

The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July (1986)

Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the program, which was produced for the Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman a ...

Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera (1985)

The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera. ...

Four American Composers: Philip Glass (1983)

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the Phillip Glass Ensemble in 1983 with interviews that go in depth of his style and music theory of his signat ...

What Maisie Knew (1975)

The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a kind of narrative. ...

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley (1974)

In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater depending on the case) for television. The work is comprised of seven, two hours sections. Each "episode" is ...

New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971 (1971)

With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Morton Subotnik, Phil Corner, Joe Jones, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Ben Patterson, Wolf Rosenberg In 1971 we produced, in association with W ...

Hands Scraping (1968)

In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their bare hands, and carrying the gathered heap in their hands out of the picture. ...