Philip Glass

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

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...

Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with...

With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Morton Subotnik, Phil Corner, Joe Jones, Alvin...

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...

This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema...

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the...

Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

A documentary about the production of Godfrey Reggio's "Once Within a Time".

Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel...

Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running,...

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...

A documentary about avant-garde composer Harry Partch.

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...

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New...

Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell....

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...

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

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

In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and...

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

This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and...

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...

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

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...

In his 1992 documentary "Compassion in Exile", filmmaker Mickey Lemle created a groundbreaking portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama. His new film takes a...

Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles celebrated the eccentric collector genius and his influential...

This documentary by Michael Blackwood looks at the development and production of Glass' opera Akhnaten. The film follows two productions by the...

When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two feature documentaries and was in post-production on...

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...

A documentary about the American postmodern dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs. For Dance, a choreography from '79 set to the music of Philip...

Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he received...

In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and composer Philip Glass discuss the conception of Paul...

Artist Enid Baxter Ryce created an experimental documentary with a musical score by Philip Glass to portray, in moving images, the history of...