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Conversation between avant garde composer John Cage and Jack Kroll, senior arts editor at Newsweek magazine. Cage was a composer and a philosopher of aesthetics, whose revolutionary definitions of music...
Documentary on the avant-garde composer John Cage. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.
Relates the story of how Al Davidson dealt with and overcame his spina bifida, and this became the subject of his acclaimed autobiographical comic book ‘The Spiral Cage’.
A series of four programmes of performances by ‘avant-garde’ musicians from New York: John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass and Robert Ashley. The programmes are preceeded and followed by short...
In the spirit of John Cage’s historic and revolutionary composition 4’33’'--which challenges the boundaries of traditional music through four and a half minutes of intentional silence--Miroslav...
Discussion of a way of thinking about the nature and organisation of all living systems, of the creativity inherent in chaos, and of a non-linear world that contains multiple views. John Cage discusses his...
In 1954, Robert Rauschenberg became the Resident Designer to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, a position he held for ten years. During that time these friends and collaborators, along with the musician...
Illustrates the development of a simple system for the daily removal of dead salmon from sea cages and a step-by-step commentrary of everyday use of the system. When salmon are kept in large cages some die...
An unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry’s ancient oral tradition and an energetic...
Painter, film theorist and film-maker Hans Richter, one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde, assembled some of the century’s liveliest artists as co-creators for this film,...
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