Bebe Barron

Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.

A documentary about the making of, and legacy of, the Forbidden Planet movie.

Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video. Milton Babbit's discussion of the difficulties of working with archaic synthesizers in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1950s and 60s is a firm reminder of just how foreign electronic sounds were to even the academic community only 40 years ago. Likewise, Paul Lansky's private lesson with theremin inventor Leon Theremin is an example of how non-user friendly electronic musical instruments could be, even to people who should have the best sense of how to approach them.

Unofficial sequel to Curtis Harrington's Queen of Blood (1966). Drums and orchestration are rumoured to be by Frank Zappa.

New York City's various bridges transform into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape (electro-acoustic version).

西暦２２００年、人類は他の惑星への移住を開始した。折しも惑星アルテア４に接近した宇宙船が危険を告げる怪電波を受信した。警告を無視し着陸したクルーたちを迎えたのは２０年前に消息を絶ったモービアス博士と娘のアルタ、そしてロボットのロビーであった。博士はこの星には怪物がおり、謎の死を運んでくるという。だがクルーたちは博士の言葉を信じず開発にかかる。やがてクルーたちは次々に殺されていった…。ウォルト・ディズニー・プロの協力を得て作られた見事な特撮合成。「スター・ウォーズ」のＲ２Ｄ２にも影響を与えた“ロビー”の活躍にも目が離せない。

A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.

Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.

A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin provides dialogue from her novella “House of Incest” and appears adrift in the undersea realm of Atlantis before ascending to dry land.