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Daniel Medina, un músico Wixárika, lleva a cabo una colaboración con el compositor Philip Glass en la que por primera vez su música tradicional es tocada acompañada de un piano. A pesar de no hablar el mismo idioma, Daniel y Philip son capaces de crear un lugar en común en donde sus espíritus se pueden encontrar y entender; su música.
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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— headed towards a critical moment of choice between annihilation and redemption.
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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 choices she made in her prior years.
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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 messages or photographs during the peak of the pandemic giving people hope and certainty. It is also a voyage through the lives of mexican families who faced the most painful pandemic, due to their social, economic and political contexts while being moved by hope and love.
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, atmospheric rivers—never visible to the naked eye—were a vital force in shaping the colonization of the American West. Today, the evolving scientific and cultural understandings of atmospheric rivers exemplify the complexity and importance of the stories we tell ourselves about science, climate, and the natural world. This film was created at the Days and Nights Festival held at the Philip Glass Center for the Arts, Science, and the Environment.
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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, atmospheric rivers—never visible to the naked eye—were a vital force in shaping the colonization of the American West. Today, the evolving scientific and cultural understandings of atmospheric rivers exemplify the complexity and importance of the stories we tell ourselves about science, climate, and the natural world. This film was created at the Days and Nights Festival held at the Philip Glass Center for the Arts, Science, and the Environment.
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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 consequences of the abuse of power and corruption.
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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 and music, the opera has a libretto by Philip Glass, Shalom Goldmann, Robert Israël and Richard Ridell, with the text drawing on ancient hymns, prayers and inscriptions, sung in their original Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian form. Produced by the Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur as part of the Festival MANCA.
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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 Motion, Façades featuring Jon Gibson, Building from Einstein on the Beach, excerpts from Music in Twelve Parts, and Dance IX from In the Upper Room.
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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 Akhenaten, who attempted to establish a kind of monotheistic cult around the god Aton during his reign in the 14th century BC, but failed due to the resistance of the priesthood. The production presented here was undoubtedly one of the very great successes of the 2019/20 season at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, due not only to the outstanding cast of singers (led by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo) but also to Phelim McDermott’s imaginative staging, which captivates with sometimes breathtaking imagery.
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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 Akhenaten, who attempted to establish a kind of monotheistic cult around the god Aton during his reign in the 14th century BC, but failed due to the resistance of the priesthood. The production presented here was undoubtedly one of the very great successes of the 2019/20 season at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, due not only to the outstanding cast of singers (led by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo) but also to Phelim McDermott’s imaginative staging, which captivates with sometimes breathtaking imagery.
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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 with a lifelike Artificial Intelligence. Progressing through an elaborate sequence of dance and fight choreography, the action of the film beckons towards an evolved future of peace and compassion.
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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.
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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 energy of the large-scale Glass Pieces or the intimate sweetness of Afternoon of a Faun and A Suite of Dances, there emerges that rare capacity to make bodies follow the flow in a living comprehension of music. As the celebrated ballet Fancy Free, a veritable theatrical portrait of an era, enters the repertoire, Robbins reveals another facet of his talent.
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"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.
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Este documental nos cuenta la historia de las primeras exploraciones e investigaciones de Jane Goodall en Tanzania, con especial hincapié en su trabajo de campo innovador, en su relación con su cámara y marido, Hugo van Lawick, y en los chimpancés que estudiaba, todo con el apoyo de nuevas imágenes que nunca habían visto la luz.
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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 spirit returns as a singing bird who wreaks vengeance on the evil Stepmother before being restored to life in the bosom of his family.
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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 Tibet and China; his influence in political, spiritual and educational spheres; his work with neuroscientists; and his personal feelings on aging, dying and whether he will be the last Dalai Lama. His impact on the West has grown over the 25 years since the earlier film, and we see some of his influence at work in classes and scientific studies. Artfully weaving interviews and accounts from family, friends and people he inspired, this film vibrantly conveys the Dalai Lama’s humor, wisdom and compassion
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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 Tibet and China; his influence in political, spiritual and educational spheres; his work with neuroscientists; and his personal feelings on aging, dying and whether he will be the last Dalai Lama. His impact on the West has grown over the 25 years since the earlier film, and we see some of his influence at work in classes and scientific studies. Artfully weaving interviews and accounts from family, friends and people he inspired, this film vibrantly conveys the Dalai Lama’s humor, wisdom and compassion
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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, military and architects, past and future.
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El director Howard Brookner murió de SIDA en Nueva York en 1989, mientras realizaba la post-producción de su película. Su obra fue enterrada hasta que su sobrino desentierra la historia.
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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.
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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.
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Cuatro jóvenes inadaptados se teletransportan a un peligroso universo alternativo, lo que les confiere extraños poderes. Cuando sus vidas cambian de forma drástica e irremediable, deben aprender a controlar sus nuevas habilidades y trabajar en equipo para salvar al mundo de un viejo conocido que ahora se ha convertido en un temible enemigo. Adaptación contemporánea del equipo de superhéroes de Marvel.
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Kolia vive en un pueblito a orillas del mar de Barents, al norte de Rusia. Tiene un taller de mecánica al lado de su casa, en donde vive con su joven esposa, Lylia, y su hijo Romka, fruto de una relación anterior. El alcalde del pueblo, Vadim Sergeyich, desea apropiarse del terreno de Kolia, de su casa y su taller para realizar sus proyectos. Primero intenta comprar el terreno, pero Kolia no soporta la idea de perder todo lo que posee; no solamente el terreno, sino la belleza que le rodea desde que nació.
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A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
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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 Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent. Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.
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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 Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent. Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.
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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.
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Rodada en blanco y negro a 4K, "Visitors" ofrece una experiencia hipnótica en la que el espectador se sentirá observado desde la pantalla. Compuesta de tan solo 74 planos se trata de una galería de retratos en movimiento de hombres, mujeres, niños y niñas de todo el planeta. Pretende ser una reflexión sobre la relación entre la raza humana y la tecnología. La música de Philip Glass es parte fundamental de este trabajo no narrativo.
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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 archival footage with a score for solo saxophone composed by Philip Glass.
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Un preso recién fugado de la cárcel intenta recuperar el botín que escondió unos años antes en una remota y solitaria aldea; pero lo que allí se encuentra supone una condena peor que la cárcel. Siniestros ancianos, extrañas desapariciones, espíritus, un peculiar sacerdote y hasta el mismísimo arcipreste de Santiago protagonizan una historia de terror, humor y fantasía. Primera producción de stop-motion con plastilina hecha en España. Cuenta con las voces de Luis Tosar, Geraldine Chaplin, Manuel Manquiña, Jorge Sanz y Paul Naschy entre otros.
Desde octubre 2022, en el canal del director en YouTube, Fernando Cortizo: "VISIONADO GRATIS (SUSCRíBETE!) y, si te gusta la película, tienes POSIBILIDAD DE HACER DONACIONES aquí debajo PARA AYUDAR A PAGAR LAS DEUDAS del coste de su realización, pues no recuperó el coste de producción debido a la ESTAFA DE LAS DISTRIBUIDORAS.". (Audio español y gallego, subtítulos multidioma) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h7yoEMrL6A
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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 family had to leave behind.
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Paul Simon vuelve a Sudáfrica para explorar el increíble viaje de su histórico albun "la gracia de la tierra", incluyendo la reacción política que recibió por romper presuntamente el boicot cultural de las Naciones Unidas de Sudáfrica diseñado para acabar con el régimen del Apartheid.
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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 leitmotiv in this documentary. We see Lucinda in NY where she re-stages Dance during the Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2010. We also follow her in Arnhem during the preparations of the piece at Introdans, where it will premiere as a part of ”Sterren en Strepen” (Stars and Stripes). For this show Introdans united the king and queen of modern dance, Hans van Manen and Lucinda Childs, in order to show their pieces together. We will also be speaking to prominent figures from the dance scene about her influence on Dutch modern dance.
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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 leitmotiv in this documentary. We see Lucinda in NY where she re-stages Dance during the Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2010. We also follow her in Arnhem during the preparations of the piece at Introdans, where it will premiere as a part of ”Sterren en Strepen” (Stars and Stripes). For this show Introdans united the king and queen of modern dance, Hans van Manen and Lucinda Childs, in order to show their pieces together. We will also be speaking to prominent figures from the dance scene about her influence on Dutch modern dance.
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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, Satyagraha depicts scenes from the life of Gandhi as he developed his philosophy of non-violent resistance in South Africa between 1896 and 1913. The opera became the second installment of Glass’s Portrait Trilogy, focused on innovators from across history. Satyagraha arrived at the Met during the 2007–08 season, when director Phelim McDermott made his debut with a production that employed everyday materials like newspaper and corrugated tin to create towering puppets and striking tableaus. In 2011, his staging returned, this time recorded live in HD. In this performance, tenor Richard Croft gives a moving performance as Gandhi, leading a remarkable ensemble cast conducted by Dante Anzolini.
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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, Satyagraha depicts scenes from the life of Gandhi as he developed his philosophy of non-violent resistance in South Africa between 1896 and 1913. The opera became the second installment of Glass’s Portrait Trilogy, focused on innovators from across history. Satyagraha arrived at the Met during the 2007–08 season, when director Phelim McDermott made his debut with a production that employed everyday materials like newspaper and corrugated tin to create towering puppets and striking tableaus. In 2011, his staging returned, this time recorded live in HD. In this performance, tenor Richard Croft gives a moving performance as Gandhi, leading a remarkable ensemble cast conducted by Dante Anzolini.
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Filmed over the ensuing years after the attack on New York's World Trade Center, this documentary takes a look a the physical and emotional healing process involved in the aftermath of such a tragedy.
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Una mujer de avanzada edad debe elegir entre un saludable marido y un hijo alcohólico cuya enfermedad esta conduciendo a la familia directamente a la pobreza.
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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 witnesses—current and retired employees and clients—who were there when IBM helped to change the way world works.
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Live performance of Philip Glass's opera Kepler (2009) by the Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theater in 2011, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
The story of music and the music industry told through interviews with musicians, composers and producers across genres.
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Mister Nice, el apodo del destacado traficante de cannabis y presunto espía británico Howard Marks, da título a su exitosa autobiografía, publicada en 1996. Howard (Rhys Ifans), conocido como “Mister Nice” es una leyenda. Traficante internacional de drogas, espía, físico nuclear, profesor de colegio, blanqueador de dinero... Es socio de la Mafia, la CIA, el IRA y el M16, además de ser un erudito defensor de la marihuana. Desde sus comienzos en el pueblo de Kenfig, en Gales del Sur, el prodigioso ascenso de Howard le lleva a viajar por diferentes países, a conseguir poderosos aliados y a ganar más dinero del que nunca podría haber imaginado. Es, sobre todo, un experto manipulador que desde muy joven supo sacar partido a cada situación y estar en el lugar y el momento adecuados.
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Al abrir los ojos, el Dr. André Luiz se da cuenta de que ya no está vivo. Se siente hambriento, sediento y tiene frío, pero ya no pertenece al mundo de los vivos. Al descubrir que está rodeado por una funesta y desértica llanura, saturada con los gritos de los seres que viven en las sombras, sus dudas y dolores se intensifican. ¿Qué tipo de destino es este? Basada en el bestseller del médium brasileño Chico Xavier, la película cuenta la historia de André Luiz, un reconocido doctor que, después de su muerte, se despierta en el mundo espiritual. Una vez allí, se embarca en un viaje de autoconocimiento y transformación, que va desde sus primeros días en una dimensión de dolor y sufrimiento, hasta ser rescatado y llevado a la ciudad espiritual de Nuestro Hogar, la cual se cierne en las capas superiores de la atmósfera de la Tierra y donde descubrirá que la vida sigue para todos.
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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 begin her life as a woman only in her 50s. The film documents the most important chapters in this intimate process of transformation. We observe Anna in her daily activities in Warsaw, we witness her intimate conversations with her son and closest friends.
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A man travels across New York City to get a Nathan's Famous hot dog.
A brief overview and focus on composers Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John Cage, Steve Reich, Elliott Carter and their contemporaries.
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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 possibilities of abstract art. Now, over fifteen years since his passing, Arthur's work is finally finding its audience. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family, friends, and closest collaborators to tell this poignant and important story.
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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.
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 which some of his ideas resonated with them, the unusual portrait of Mishima that the film offers, its form and visual style, etc.
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An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A provincial war vet arrives in Moscow and subsequently takes on a gang of bad cops.
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La historia de dos hermanos con serios problemas financieros. Cuando su tío les propone una salidade su apuro, pero a cambio de infringir la ley, las cosas se ponen feas y los dos hermanos se enemistan
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Una chef adicta al trabajo debe ceder parte del control de su restaurante a un despreocupado compañero de trabajo cuando se convierte en la tutora de su sobrina tras la muerte de sus padres.
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Barbara es una despótica y solitaria profesora que gobierna su aula con mano de hierro en una ruinosa escuela pública de secundaria londinense. Vive sola, con su gata Portia, no tiene amigos, pero su vida experimenta un cambio radical cuando conoce a Sheba Hart, la nueva y atractiva profesora de arte de la escuela. Barbara ve en ella al alma gemela y a la leal amiga que siempre ha estado buscando. Pero, cuando descubre que Sheba mantiene una tórrida relación con uno de sus jóvenes alumnos, la incipiente amistad da un ominoso giro, pues Barbara amenaza con contárselo todo al marido de Sheba y al mundo entero.
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 continuing impact on modern music is incalculable. Drawing on this legacy, these landmark shows brought together a remarkable roster of artists performing their own unique interpretations of these classic songs.
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"El ilusionista" de 2006. En la Viena de 1900, el misterioso Eisenheim cautiva al público con sus espectáculos de magia e ilusionismo. Sus poderes sobrenaturales llegan a los oídos del príncipe heredero Leopold, un hombre pragmático que acude a su espectáculo con incredulidad, acompañado de su prometida, la bella y sofisticada Sophie. Sospechando un fraude por parte de Eisenheim, el príncipe encarga al perspicaz inspector de policía Uhl que le vigile de cerca...
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La pelicula cuenta la historia de dos vehículos robóticos increíblemente complejo ( La tecnología total de las mismas en los vehículos excede la capacidad del cerebro de cualquier persona) llamado Spirit y Opportunity y los envió a la superficie de Marte , donde aterrizó con éxito en el verano de 2003. Hay una extensa cantidad de superficie de Marte, donde tanto cuidado CGI precisa y real imágenes de Rover , se utiliza para dar al espectador una agradable visita a otro mundo. Sorprendentemente , la misión prevista de 90 días ya se extiende por más de cuatro años y continúa hasta nuestros días.
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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. Despite international protest, the statues were blown up. Through interwoven narratives from past and present, Frei's film sheds light on the disturbing consequences of religious fanaticism.
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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 had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?
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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 influences, fans, politics and family.
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Tells the story of David Secter, Canada's first acclaimed indie filmmaker.
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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 of intensive study with Nadia Boulanger, his meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar and director Robert Wilson, who had a deep influence on his career. The film also shows him at work on the last details of his opera The Sound of a Voice, directed by Robert Woodruff and conducted by Alan Johnson. Éric Darmon's camera, with its poetic shots and original framings, takes us for a musical journey into seven months of the life of the composer who, rising from the underground scene of the seventies, brought on a revolution in modern theater.
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Ambientada en una región del sur de Estados Unidos por la que parece no haber pasado el tiempo, narra la historia de dos hermanos que huyen del hogar guardando un secreto tras la muerte de su padre y la llegada de su problemático y avaricioso tío.
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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 beginnings of the disease. Using interviews, newsreel footage, and documented research experiments, The Origin of AIDS examines how a combination of benevolence, careless lab procedures, and the need of a desperate few to cover their tracks could have led to one of the most serious pandemics of the 20th century.
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La agente special del FBI Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie), especializada en perfiles psicológicos, es reclamada por la policía canadiense francófona de Montreal para trata de capturar a un asesino en serie que parece asumir la identidad de sus víctimas. En la investigación resulta de gran ayuda la aparición de James Costa (Ethan Hawke), un testigo que vió al asesino justo cuando estaba con una de sus víctimas.
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Thriller basado en una novela de Stephen King. Depp es un escritor que atraviesa un mal momento: a la sequía creativa se une el proceso de separación de su esposa. En tales circunstancias, aparece en su vida un extraño personaje que lo acusa de haber plagiado uno de sus relatos.
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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 Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
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Female dancers “clothed” in electronically generated flaming colors reincarnate Thomas Edison’s 1894 hand-tinted film “Annabelle Dances”.
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Las Horas es una tragedia melancólica, basada en el libro de Virginia Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway", sobre tres mujeres condenadas a la depresión. Stephaen Daldry, el director, presenta la vida y los cambios psicóticos de la excepcional autora inglesa interpretada por Nicole Kidman, que ganó el Oscar a la mejor actriz.
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Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass talk about their 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi."
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Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass discuss their films "Powaqqatsi" (1988) and "Naqoyqatsi" (2002).
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Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass talk about their 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi."
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Tercera parte de la trilogía formada por Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) y Naqoyqatsi (2002).
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A documentary about avant-garde composer Harry Partch.
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An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway.
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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 interviews with collaborators such as Werner Herzog and Phillip Glass.
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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 each other behind their backs, and the parents worry about the future. Signs that all is not well within the Specks' world begin when Vincent announces the arranged marriage of his son Aldo to a woman he has never met. They are set to marry the next day. Soon after the wedding, the eldest son, Edward, is found dead in his bedroom. What's going on here?
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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 find a way to put an end to this.
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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 chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac's death, and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage's music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.
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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 chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac's death, and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage's music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.
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Truman Burbank es un hombre corriente y algo ingenuo que ha vivido toda su vida en uno de esos pueblos donde nunca pasa nada. Sin embargo, de repente, unos extraños sucesos le hacen sospechar que algo anormal está ocurriendo. Todos sus amigos son actores, toda su ciudad es un plató, toda su vida está siendo filmada y emitida como el reality más ambicioso de la historia.
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Truman Burbank es un hombre corriente y algo ingenuo que ha vivido toda su vida en uno de esos pueblos donde nunca pasa nada. Sin embargo, de repente, unos extraños sucesos le hacen sospechar que algo anormal está ocurriendo. Todos sus amigos son actores, toda su ciudad es un plató, toda su vida está siendo filmada y emitida como el reality más ambicioso de la historia.
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Truman Burbank es un hombre corriente y algo ingenuo que ha vivido toda su vida en uno de esos pueblos donde nunca pasa nada. Sin embargo, de repente, unos extraños sucesos le hacen sospechar que algo anormal está ocurriendo. Todos sus amigos son actores, toda su ciudad es un plató, toda su vida está siendo filmada y emitida como el reality más ambicioso de la historia.
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En 1937 un niño tibetano es elegido por un grupo de monjes para representar a su pueblo y convertirse en el decimocuarto Dalai Lama, la más alta figura del budismo en el Tibet. El sistema es expeditivo: el niño, de dos años, es arrebatado a su familia y llevado al palacio de Potala para ser educado y preparado para asumir el liderazgo político y espiritual.
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Max (Clive Owen) es gay, y por ese motivo es enviado a Dachau, un campo de concentración bajo el régimen nazi. Max trata de negar su sexualidad y consigue una etiqueta amarilla, reservada para los judíos, en lugar de una rosa, la de los homosexuales. En el campo de concentración se enamora de Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), quien con orgullo lleva su etiqueta rosa.
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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 discuss the births of their children. Pastor Jess Moody recalls WW II deaths of his friends, and artist Janice Blake remembers being raped.
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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 discuss the births of their children. Pastor Jess Moody recalls WW II deaths of his friends, and artist Janice Blake remembers being raped.
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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 saw a decline in Simon's commercial success, and the singer responded by experimenting with different musical styles--most notably, world beat--that culminated in his adventurous 1986 masterpiece GRACELAND. The album's fusion of American folk-rock songwriting and buoyant South African rhythms not only broke new ground in pop music, but became Simon's biggest-selling solo record. This episode of the CLASSIC ALBUMS series examines the making of Simon's groundbreaking work through interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, music videos, and live performances of album tracks such as "Boy in the Bubble," "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes," "You Can Call Me Al," and "Under African Skies."
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Londres, finales del siglo XIX. Verloc es miembro de un grupo anarquista que tiene su sede en el Soho, aunque, en realidad, es un agente al servicio de una embajada extranjera. Un día, recibe la orden de traicionar a sus camaradas. (FILMAFFINITY)
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A haunting look at children watching television.
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Michael is a U.S. journalist who works for a Brazilian newspaper. One day he is put in charge of interviewing Father Louis Stephen, a famed catholic missionary who helps the needy in the jungles of Brazil. Yet he has one problem: the Father has rarely ever given an interview. However, Michael decides that he will be the first to have interviewed the Father personally, and goes on a journey to the center of Brazil, in search of the priest. Michael will soon know how hard it can be to get an interview, and that the Father's apparent media-shyness has deeper implications than he thought.
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Continuación de la historia de la figura fantasmal que condena a una muerte aterradora a aquellos que pronuncien su nombre cinco veces frente a un espejo. Durante su vida Candyman (Tony Dodd) fue víctima de hechos atroces y, tras su muerte, se convierte en la encarnación del mal. Ambientada en Nueva Orleáns, donde la profesora Annie Tarrant (Kelly Rowan) trata de esclarecer el brutal asesinato de su padre. La gente cree que el culpable es Candyman, pero Annie no está segura del todo.
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A short film directed by Paul Schrader following the story of a painting from Schrader's collection.
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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 comment: "The poem watches a dying man at work, his name is Molière. The poem is not a film. The film watches an actor playing a dying man called Molière."
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Imagen y música se entrelazan en esta tercera colaboración entre el director Godfrey Reggio y el compositor Philip Glass. La película fue producida para celebrar la Campaña de Diversidad Biológica del Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza. La película combina imágenes de la naturaleza con los ritmos pulsantes en Microcosmos (1997) cruzado con Koyaanisqatsi (1983).
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The film tells the story of His Holyness the Dalai Lama
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En la Universidad de Chicago la estudiante graduada Helen Lyle se da cuenta de la superstición prevaleciente que rodea la leyenda de Candyman (un fantasma con un gancho en vez de mano que aparecerá si su nombre se dice cinco veces en un espejo) entre los arrendatarios del Cabrini del proyecto Verde de Chicago. El profesor, oyendo hablar de la investigación de Helen, explica la base histórica para la leyenda y detalla cómo se cree que Candyman es el espíritu vengativo de un esclavo que fue mutilado por una chusma enloquecida cuando se lo acusó de violar a una mujer blanca. Cuando Helen prueba su confianza intelectual recitando el nombre de Candyman cinco veces, ella pone en movimiento una serie inevitable de eventos sobrenaturales, culminando en una serie de matanzas espantosas en las que Helen sostiene el arma del asesinato. Aunque ella es capturada por la policía, se pone en evidencia para Helen que Candyman está guiando su destino.
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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 & fictional characters occupying the library.
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Una película sobre la vida y obra del cosmólogo Stephen Hawking, quien a pesar de su parálisis casi total, es una de las grandes mentes de todos los tiempos.
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Un senador americano, ex-candidato a la presidencia, visita a un amigo escritor que vive en Francia. Durante una excursión al Mont Sant Michel conoce a una científica desencantada de su profesión que reniega de sus investigaciones por haber sido utilizadas en el proyecto Guerra de la Galaxias promovido por Reagan. Los tres se conocen casualmente ante un reloj renacentista y entablan una conversación sobre Descartes, que continuará a lo largo de toda la película, mientras visitan el famoso enclave turístico normando. A lo largo de ese paseo hablarán de todo lo divino y lo humano desde sus distintos puntos de vista. Celebrada película independiente similar en el tono a "Waking Life".
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En plena Edad Media, los Caballeros Teutónicos, "frailes guerreros de crueldad legendaria", exterminaron un poblado de brujas, enterrándolas en una fosa común sobre la cual se erigirá una catedral, como barrera frente a las fuerzas del Maligno. Ya en nuestros días, algo sucede que tiene relación con dicho suceso...
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Part one of the two part abstract video art-piece, with music composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos String Quartet.
Music Arranger
Abstract video art with music composed by Philip Glass. Music by the Kronos String Quartet.
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Aclamado y premiado documental basado en hechos reales que relata el arresto y condena de Randall Adams, sentenciado a muerte por el asesinato de un policía de Dallas en 1976. Gracias al documental, se consiguió reabrir el caso de Adams.
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Segunda parte de la trilogía formada por Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) y Naqoyqatsi (2002)
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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 confronts a hectic work schedule, funding difficulties and relentless international travel in attempt to complete his preparations. The film examines Wilson’s unique theatrical style during The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down, which involves the continual creation of evocative stage sets, owing to a unique juxtaposition of movement, sound, text and image. Known for his precise, painterly images Wilson’s work derives more from visual art than the orthodox literary traditions of theatre. As a result, Wilson often challenges actors to perform in a boldly minimalist style, as well as collaborating with non-actors, such as young autistic poet Christopher Knowles in Einstein on the Beach.
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Una división de soldados norteamericanos, muchos de ellos novatos, es transportada a un punto estratégico, desde donce partirán para tomar una colina, en manos del Vietcom. En esas fechas Vietnam era un infierno para unos, y para otros la capital mundial de la diversión. La misión de la compañía Bravo, que en un principio parecía un mero trámite, se convierte en una masacre de la que el ejército estadounidense no sabe cómo salir.
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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.
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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 and directed by Tom Bowes.
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 and directed by Tom Bowes.
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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 brilliant this 40 minute piece is.
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One night in Gotham one couple ends their relationship, then another, and another.
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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. In an extraordinary section, a performance in Japan of classical Western music is accompanied by a group of Kabuki dancers.
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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.
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Producida por Coppola y Lucas, "Mishima" es un retrato biográfico del consagrado autor japonés Yukio Mishima. La película investiga la inquietud interior y las contradicciones de un hombre que trató de alcanzar una imposible armonía entre sí mismo, el arte y la sociedad. La trama se centra en el día en que Mishima conmocionó al mundo, al hacerse en público el seppuku o harakiri (25 de noviembre de 1970), en el Cuartel General del Ejército. El relato está salpicado de flashbacks para contar diversos episodios de su infancia, sus comienzos como escritor, el posterior triunfo profesional, su tranformación en estrella mediática, sus obsesiones por la belleza física y sus ambiguos gustos sexuales, así como la creación de la "Sociedad del Escudo". (FILMAFFINITY)
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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 signature minimal sound.
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Abstract video art set to the music of Philip Glass.
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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 advanced his philosophy: the celebrated Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the great Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the heroic American civil rights leader Martin Luther King. The libretto is comprised of passages from “The Bhagavad-Gita,” India’s greatest philosophical epic, and perfectly complements Glass’ ravishing score, mysteriously transporting the audience with a serene power and an all-encompassing sense of peace.
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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 advanced his philosophy: the celebrated Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the great Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the heroic American civil rights leader Martin Luther King. The libretto is comprised of passages from “The Bhagavad-Gita,” India’s greatest philosophical epic, and perfectly complements Glass’ ravishing score, mysteriously transporting the audience with a serene power and an all-encompassing sense of peace.
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Realizado entre los años 1975 y 1982, "Koyaanisqatsi" -primera parte de lo que sería luego una trilogía formada por Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) y Naqoyqatsi (2002)- es un singular documental que refleja la colisión entre dos mundos obligados a convivir: por un lado la vida de los hombres en la sociedad moderna, la vida urbana y occidental, llena de tecnología, ciencia y consumismo. Por otro la naturaleza y el medio ambiente del planeta Tierra. Sin voz humana, tan sólo con el poder de las imágenes y la banda sonora minimalista de Philip Glass, Godfrey Reggio presentó este documental ante 5000 personas el 4 de Octubre de 1982 en el Radio City Hall de Nueva York, convirtiéndose al instante en un documental de culto.
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Realizado entre los años 1975 y 1982, "Koyaanisqatsi" -primera parte de lo que sería luego una trilogía formada por Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) y Naqoyqatsi (2002)- es un singular documental que refleja la colisión entre dos mundos obligados a convivir: por un lado la vida de los hombres en la sociedad moderna, la vida urbana y occidental, llena de tecnología, ciencia y consumismo. Por otro la naturaleza y el medio ambiente del planeta Tierra. Sin voz humana, tan sólo con el poder de las imágenes y la banda sonora minimalista de Philip Glass, Godfrey Reggio presentó este documental ante 5000 personas el 4 de Octubre de 1982 en el Radio City Hall de Nueva York, convirtiéndose al instante en un documental de culto.
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Surroundings of the Canal Saint-Martin’s in Paris, a popular district where modernization is just about to begin.
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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.
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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 about 1975 to 1977, fairly early in di Suvero's long career, filmmaker de Menil and art historian Rose produced this film, which was characterized at the time as "a tribute to the extraordinary work and life of the innovative American sculptor of monumental but delicate constructions." The film shows di Suvero making and installing several of his very large sculptures, and incorporates informal interviews of di Suvero, his mother, and others involved in his career and life at that time. From 1971 to 1975 di Suvero, an American, lived in a self-imposed exile in France in protest of US involvement in war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and the filming spans the end of his exile and his return to New York.
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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 their inevitable journey: this motionless movement.
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. - BM
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Opera televisiva organizada por Robert Ashley. Un proyecto extenso (su duración total llega a las 14 horas) que mezcla testimonios de compositores americanos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX con interpretaciones de su propia música; David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley y el propio Robert Ashley aparecen en este híbrido televisivo.
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Soundtrack by Philip Glass
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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.
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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 when it means rejecting popular beliefs and establishment authority.
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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 often positioned five to ten feet from the animals. In New York, partite animal forms were separated into two segments: as walking and as graduated motion. Through the edited sequential duration, camel morphology vies with the viewer's inherent anthropomorphism. For me this film is the most successful in that the impression of these animals as primordial beings existing in barren yet awesomely beautiful surroundings far outweighs a consciousness of complicated editing and sound relationships."
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.
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Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"
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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-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.
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Described as a fairy tale for the young and young at heart, focused on the forging of a new culture in a world threatened by ecological collapse and unprecedented technological transformation
