Philip Glass Movies

  • 1983
    Philip Glass: Satyagraha

    Philip Glass: Satyagraha

    Philip Glass: Satyagraha

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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...

    Philip Glass: Satyagraha
  • 2013
    November 22, 1963

    November 22, 1963

    November 22, 1963

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    Josiah “Tink” Thompson discusses the Kennedy assassination, the nature of truth and photographic evidence in this short film from...

    November 22, 1963
  • 2021
    LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE

    LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE

    LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE

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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...

    LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE
  • 2011
    Glass: Kepler

    Glass: Kepler

    Glass: Kepler

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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...

    Glass: Kepler
  • 2003
    Wildfire

    Wildfire

    Wildfire

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    Female dancers “clothed” in electronically generated flaming colors reincarnate Thomas Edison’s 1894 hand-tinted film...

    Wildfire
  • 1983
    ACT III

    ACT III

    ACT III

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    Abstract video art set to the music of Philip Glass.

    ACT III
  • 2006
    Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles

    Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles

    Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles

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    This was filmed at Anthology Film Archives on May 31, 2000. From the cycle of FIRST FORTY I made in late 2006 as an introduction to my work for my...

    Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles
  • 2011
    Lucinda Childs' Dance

    Lucinda Childs' Dance

    Lucinda Childs' 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...

    Lucinda Childs' Dance
  • 2002
    Impact of Progress

    Impact of Progress

    Impact of Progress

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

    Impact of Progress
  • 2020
    Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective

    Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective

    Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective

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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...

    Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective
  • 1986
    A Perfect Couple

    A Perfect Couple

    A Perfect Couple

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

    A Perfect Couple
  • 1970
    Isy Boukir

    Isy Boukir

    Isy Boukir

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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...

    Isy Boukir
  • 1995
    Untitled: New Blue

    Untitled: New Blue

    Untitled: New Blue

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    A short film directed by Paul Schrader following the story of a painting from Schrader's collection.

    Untitled: New Blue
  • 1987
    Monolithe

    Monolithe

    Monolithe

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    Monolithe
  • 2013
    Re: Awakenings

    Re: Awakenings

    Re: Awakenings

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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...

    Re: Awakenings
  • 1975
    What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew

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    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...

    What Maisie Knew
  • 2020
    Philip Glass: Akhnaten

    Philip Glass: Akhnaten

    Philip Glass: Akhnaten

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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...

    Philip Glass: Akhnaten
  • 2002
    Essence of Life

    Essence of Life

    Essence of Life

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

    Essence of Life